Essentials of schizophrenia [1st edition] 9781585624010, 5420126168, 1585624012, 9781585629695, 1585629693

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Contents......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Preface......Page 16
1 Epidemiology and Natural History......Page 18
2 Psychopathology......Page 28
3 Prodrome and First Episode......Page 74
4 Neurocognitive Impairments......Page 90
5 Social and Functional Impairments......Page 110
6 Co-occurring Substance Use and Other Psychiatric Disorders......Page 148
7 Medical Comorbidities......Page 176
8 Pharmacotherapies......Page 190
9 Psychosocial Therapies......Page 224
10 Treatment of Chronic Schizophrenia......Page 242
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B......Page 265
C......Page 266
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Essentials of Schizophrenia

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JEFFREY A. LIEBERMAN, M.D. T. SCOTT STROUP, M.D., M.P.H. DIANA O. PERKINS, M.D., M.P.H.

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Note: The authors have worked to ensure that all information in this book is accurate at the time of publication and consistent with general psychiatric and medical standards, and that information concerning drug dosages, schedules, and routes of administration is accurate at the time of publication and consistent with standards set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the general medical community. As medical research and practice continue to advance, however, therapeutic standards may change. Moreover, specific situations may require a specific therapeutic response not included in this book. For these reasons and because human and mechanical errors sometimes occur, we recommend that readers follow the advice of physicians directly involved in their care or the care of a member of their family. Books published by American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., represent the views and opinions of the individual authors and do not necessarily represent the policies and opinions of APPI or the American Psychiatric Association. If you would like to buy between 25 and 99 copies of this or any other APPI title, you are eligible for a 20% discount; please contact APPI Customer Service at [email protected] or 800-368-5777. If you wish to buy 100 or more copies of the same title, please email us at [email protected] for a price quote. Copyright © 2012 American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Manufactured in the United States of America on acid-free paper 15 14 13 12 11 5 4 3 2 1 First Edition Typeset in Adobe’s Frutiger and Janson Text. American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. 1000 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, VA 22209-3901 www.appi.org Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lieberman, Jeffrey A., 1948– Essentials of schizophrenia / edited by Jeffrey A. Lieberman, T. Scott Stroup, Diana O. Perkins. — 1st ed. p. ; cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-58562-401-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Schizophrenia. I. Stroup, T. Scott, 1960– II. Perkins, Diana O., 1958– III. Title. [DNLM: 1. Schizophrenia. WM 203] RC514.L54 2012 616.89'8—dc22 2011011090 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP record is available from the British Library.

To our patients for their courage and for their assistance in the search for the causes of and cure for their illness.

To my family in gratitude for their love, support, and patience— J.A.L. To Thelma and Meg with love—T.S.S. With appreciation to my husband, Clark, for his intellectual and emotional support, and to my children, Chris, Nick, and Katie, for their tolerance and love—D.O.P.

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CONTENTS Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv

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Epidemiology and Natural History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Diana O. Perkins, M.D., M.P.H. Jeffrey A. Lieberman, M.D.

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Psychopathology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 J. P. Lindenmayer, M.D. Anzalee Khan, Ph.D.

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Prodrome and First Episode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Diana O. Perkins, M.D., M.P.H. Jeffrey A. Lieberman, M.D.

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Neurocognitive Impairments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Richard S.E. Keefe, Ph.D. Charles E. Eesley, Ph.D.

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Social and Functional Impairments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Amy E. Pinkham, Ph.D. Kim T. Mueser, Ph.D. David L. Penn, Ph.D. Shirley M. Glynn, Ph.D. Susan R. McGurk, Ph.D. Jean Addington, Ph.D.

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Co-occurring Substance Use and Other Psychiatric Disorders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Mary F. Brunette, M.D. Douglas L. Noordsy, M.D. Alan I. Green, M.D.

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Medical Comorbidities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Erick Messias, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. Lisa Dixon, M.D., M.P.H.

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Pharmacotherapies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 T. Scott Stroup, M.D., M.P.H. Stephen R. Marder, M.D. Jeffrey A. Lieberman, M.D.

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Psychosocial Therapies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Marvin S. Swartz, M.D. Nora R. Frohberg, M.D. Robert E. Drake, M.D., Ph.D. John Lauriello, M.D.

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Treatment of Chronic Schizophrenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Alexander L. Miller, M.D. Joseph P. McEvoy, M.D. Dilip V. Jeste, M.D. Stephen R. Marder, M.D.

Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

CONTRIBUTORS Jean Addington, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Mary F. Brunette, M.D. Medical Director, Bureau of Behavioral Health, Bureau of Behavioral Health, New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Concord, New Hampshire Lisa Dixon, M.D., M.P.H. Professor and Director, Division of Services Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Deputy Director and Associate Director of Research, VA Capitol Health Care Network MIRECC, Baltimore, Maryland Robert E. Drake, M.D., Ph.D. Andrew Thomson Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire; Director, Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, Concord, New Hampshire Charles E. Eesley, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California Nora R. Frohberg, M.D. Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Missouri; Staff Psychiatrist, Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital, Columbia, Missouri Shirley M. Glynn, Ph.D. Research Psychologist, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California; VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

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ESSENTIALS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA Alan I. Green, M.D. Raymond Sobel Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire Dilip V. Jeste, M.D. Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Director, Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, and Chief, Geriatric Psychiatry Division, University of California, San Diego/VA Medical Center, San Diego, California Richard S. E. Keefe, Ph.D. Professor and Director, Schizophrenia Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina Anzalee Khan, Ph.D. Manhattan Psychiatric Center, Ward’s Island, New York; Fordham University, New York, New York John Lauriello, M.D. Chancellor’s Chair of Excellence and Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri; Medical Director, Missouri Psychiatric Center Jeffrey A. Lieberman, M.D. Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University; Director, New York State Psychiatric Institute; Psychiatrist-in-Chief, New York Presbyterian Hospital–Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York J. P. Lindenmayer, M.D. Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York; Clinical Director, Psychopharmacology Research Unit, Manhattan Psychiatric Center–Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, New York, New York Stephen R. Marder, M.D. Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles; Director, VISN 22 Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC), Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Los Angeles, California Joseph P. McEvoy, M.D. Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina; Deputy Clinical Director, John Umstead Hospital, Butner, North Carolina

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Susan R. McGurk, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire; Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, Concord, New Hampshire Erick Messias, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Director, Walker Family Clinic, Psychiatric Research Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas Alexander L. Miller, M.D. Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas Kim T. Mueser, Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry and of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire; Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, Concord, New Hampshire Douglas L. Noordsy, M.D. Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire David L. Penn, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Diana O. Perkins, M.D., M.P.H. Professor and Medical Director of OASIS (Outreach and Support Intervention Services), Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina– Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Amy E. Pinkham, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas T. Scott Stroup, M.D., M.P.H. Director, Program for Intervention Effectiveness Research, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York Marvin S. Swartz, M.D. Professor and Head, Division of Social and Community Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina

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DISCLOSURE OF COMPETING INTERESTS The following contributors to this book have indicated a financial interest in or other affiliation with a commercial supporter, a manufacturer of a commercial product, a provider of a commercial service, a nongovernmental organization, and/or a government agency, as listed below: Lisa Dixon, M.D., M.P.H.—Principal Investigator: Addressing Adherence in the Treatment of Schizophrenia and Other Severe Mental Illness, Ortho McNeil Janssen Scientific Affairs, December 2009–December 2010; convened a meeting to consider issues and policy/research recommendations regarding adherence and disparities in above by race and ethnicity Robert E. Drake, M.D., Ph.D.—The Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center receives support for research and educational materials on employment services from the following: Grants: National Institute on Drug Abuse; National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research; National Institute of Mental Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Contracts: Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation–Department of Health and Human Services, Guilford Press, Hazelden Press, MacArthur Foundation, Oxford University Press, National Institute of Mental Health, Research Foundation for Mental Health, Gifts from Johnson & Johnson Corporate Contributions, Segal Foundation, Social Security Administration, Thomson Foundation, Vail Foundation, West Foundation Alan I. Green, M.D.—Research support: Eli Lilly, Janssen, Lundbeck; Service on Data Monitoring Committee: Eli Lilly; Stock ownership: Johnson & Johnson, Mylan, Pfizer; Pending patent applications regarding treatment for substance abuse Dilip V. Jeste, M.D.—AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, and Janssen donate medication for our National Institute of Mental Health– funded grant “Metabolic Effects of Newer Antipsychotics in Older Patients.” Richard S. E. Keefe, Ph.D.—Research funding: Allon, AstraZeneca, Department of Veterans Affairs, GlaxoSmithKline, National Institute of Mental Health, Novartis, Singapore Medical Research Council; Consultant/ Advisory Board: Abbott, Bioline, BrainCells, CHDI, Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma, Eli Lilly, EnVivo, Lundbeck, Memory Pharmaceuticals, Merck, NeuroSearch, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi/Aventis, Shire, Solvay, Takeda, Wyeth; Royalties: Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS), MATRICS Battery (BACS Symbol Coding); Shareholder: NeuroCog Trials Inc.; Other: Duke University holds the copyright for the ScoRS, and licenses are issued by NeuroCog Trials Inc. There is currently no license fee to use the ScoRS.

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John Lauriello, M.D.—Consultant: Eli Lilly Jeffrey A. Lieberman, M.D.—2010–2011: Grant/Research support: Allon*, GlaxoSmithKline*, Eli Lilly*, Merck*, Novartis*, Pfizer*, Hoffmann–La Roche Ltd.*, Sepracor (Sunovion)*, Targacept*; Advisory Board: Bioline*, Intracellular Therapies, Pierre Fabre*, PsychoGenics*; Patent: Repligen 2009–2010: Grant/Research support: Merck*; Advisory Board: Eli Lilly*; Patent: Repligen (*Dr. Lieberman receives no direct financial compensation or salary support for participation in these research, consulting, or advisory board activities.) J.P. Lindenmayer, M.D.—Grant support: AstraZeneca, Azur, Dainippon Sumitomo; Eli Lilly, Janssen, National Institute of Mental Health, Otsuka, Pfizer; Consultant: Eli Lilly, Janssen Stephen R. Marder, M.D.—Research: GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis; Advisory Board: Bristol-Myers Squibb, Lundbeck, Otsuka, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi/Aventis, Schering-Plough, Wyeth Joseph P. McEvoy, M.D.—Honoraria: Eli Lilly; Consultant: Merck, Roche Alexander L. Miller, M.D.—Advisory Board: Rules-Based Medicine (March 2010); Investigator-initiated research grant: Pfizer; Consultant: RBM Inc. (2010). Douglas L. Noordsy, M.D.—Consulting honoraria, speaking honoraria, and/or research support: AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Janssen, Merck, Novartis, Sunovion Diana O. Perkins, M.D., M.P.H.—Consultant: Eli Lilly, Endo Pharmaceutical, Sunovion; Advisory Board: Genentech (CNS Advisory Board), Merck (Clinical Advisory Board) The following contributors stated that they had no competing interests during the year preceding manuscript submission: Jean Addington, Ph.D. Mary F. Brunette, M.D. Nora R. Frohberg, M.D. Shirley M. Glynn, Ph.D. Anzalee Khan, Ph.D. Susan R. McGurk, Ph.D.

Erick Messias, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. Kim T. Mueser, Ph.D. David L. Penn, Ph.D. Amy E. Pinkham, Ph.D. T. Scott Stroup, M.D., M.P.H. Marvin S. Swartz, M.D.

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PREFACE

Schizophrenia and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders remain common and frequently disabling illnesses that pose enormous challenges for affected individuals, their families, mental health care providers, healthcare systems, and society at large. However, advances in the understanding of the causes of schizophrenia and its pathophysiology, and research on treatment approaches, provide hope for the future. Much research is being done to develop new methods of diagnostic assessment, new treatments, and ultimately the discovery of the causes and cures for schizophrenia. While we await these breakthroughs, there is much that can be done to improve the lives and outcomes of patients with mental illness by applying existing knowledge and making evidence-based treatments available. Although recent research has clarified that the antipsychotic medications currently available have many shortcomings, we know ever more about how best to deploy these essential treatments. Increasingly we know that psychosocial treatments are critical to optimal outcomes, including recovery. Research demonstrating that untreated psychosis and delays in seeking treatment are associated with poorer outcomes has led to new initiatives in Australia, the United States, and elsewhere to promote earlier detection of psychosis and to intervene promptly and comprehensively. This extremely practical work may have a tremendous yield. The textbook we edited, The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Schizophrenia, published in 2006, is a comprehensive resource on schizophre-

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ESSENTIALS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA nia. This book, Essentials of Schizophrenia, focuses on the clinical essentials of schizophrenia, including epidemiology, manifestations of illness, comorbidities, and treatment strategies. We have assembled chapters by an eminent roster of experts who provide the latest clinically relevant information. We are grateful to these experts for their outstanding contributions. We hope that this volume will serve as an essential source of knowledge and resource for clinicians, trainees, and students who seek to help people with schizophrenia and their families. Jeffrey A. Lieberman, M.D. T. Scott Stroup, M.D., M.P.H. Diana O. Perkins, M.D., M.P.H.

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EPIDEMIOLOGY Epidemiological studies inform us about the burden of a disease to society, and findings often generate hypotheses about disease risk and prognosis. In this section we review epidemiological studies investigating the rate at which schizophrenia develops over a given time in different populations (incidence), and the total number of persons who have schizophrenia at a given time (prevalence). Note that prevalence is influenced by incidence rates and also by factors that cause persons with schizophrenia to leave the population (e.g., death, recovery). We also discuss the results of ecological studies investigating environmental factors associated with differences in incidence and prevalence of schizophrenia.

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INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE The incidence and prevalence of schizophrenia are highly variable in different populations. These variations give clues about the possible contribution of genetic and environmental factors to disease risk. As reported in a systematic review of more than 100 large-scale epidemiological studies from 32 countries, the median incidence rate for schizophrenia is 15.2 per 100,000 persons per year, with the lowest 10% of rates at 7.7 and the highest 90% of rates at 43 per 100,000 persons per year (McGrath et al. 2004). Thus, the incidence of schizophrenia has varied more than fivefold in different locations. Incidence variability occurs even at a local level. For example, in a study of schizophrenia incidence from 1997 to 1999 in England, the age-adjusted incidence in London was 20.1, in Nottingham 7.6, and in Bristol 7.2 per 100,000 persons per year (Kirkbride et al. 2006). Thus, it is not surprising that the prevalence of schizophrenia also is highly variable. In a systematic review that included 19 studies, the median point prevalence of schizophrenia was 4.6 per 1,000 persons, with the 10th percentile 1.9 and the 90th percentile 10.0 per 1,000 persons (Saha et al. 2005). Perhaps the most meaningful way to look at the risk of developing schizophrenia is the lifetime morbid risk, which is the lifetime prevalence of schizophrenia including all persons in a birth cohort. The median lifetime morbid risk of schizophrenia is 7.2 per 1,000 persons, with the 10th percentile 3.1 and the 90th percentile 27.1 per 1,000 persons. It is therefore correct to say that about 0.7% of persons will develop schizophrenia in their lifetime but that this proportion varies in different populations from 0.3% to 2.7%. Thus, the often-mentioned lifetime prevalence of schizophrenia of 1% worldwide is a reasonable approximation but appears to be higher than is supported by recent epidemiological studies.

FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE Large-scale, well-conducted epidemiological studies have found several factors associated with incidence and prevalence of schizophrenia. For example, meta-analyses conclude that schizophrenia is about 1.4 times more common in males than in females (Aleman et al. 2003; McGrath et al. 2004). In addition a number of studies point to the involvement of environment in schizophrenia risk. Urban birth or living in an urban area is associated with an approximate 1.9-fold increased risk of schizophrenia in males and a 1.3-fold increased risk in females compared with nonurban populations (Kelly et al. 2010). First-generation immigrants have an approximate 2.7-fold and second-generation immigrants an approximate 4.5-fold increased risk of schizophrenia, with impact similar on males and females (Cantor-Graae and Selten

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2005). Schizophrenia prevalence is higher in countries that are further from the equator, and schizophrenia incidence similarly varies for men but not for women (Saha et al. 2006). Perinatal complications, especially maternal infections, severe maternal malnutrition, maternal exposure to severe stressful events, and birth complications, are environmental risk factors for schizophrenia (Verdoux 2004). While ecological studies examining the risk of schizophrenia in persons with prenatal exposure to viral epidemics have equivocal findings, follow-up studies using much stronger case-control designs provide evidence that risk of schizophrenia is about sevenfold higher in persons with in utero exposure to infectious agents (Brown and Derkits 2010). Several studies find the risk of schizophrenia is about doubled in individuals gestated during a famine (Brown and Susser 2008). Maternal exposure to severe stressful life events, such as war or the death of a close relative, is associated with about a 50% increase in schizophrenia risk (Khashan et al. 2008; Malaspina et al. 2008; van Os and Selten 1998). Obstetrical complications, especially those involving significant hypoxia, are associated with about a twofold increased risk of schizophrenia (Cannon et al. 2002). A more recent hypothesis regarding differences in schizophrenia risk associated with latitude and immigration is related to maternal vitamin D deficiency (Eyles et al. 2009; Mackay-Sim et al. 2004). The above findings have generated important hypotheses regarding schizophrenia etiology. Most established is the neurodevelopmental hypothesis of schizophrenia, which purports that altered brain development early in life increases risk of later schizophrenia. Environmental exposures, including infectious agents or the maternal response to infectious agents, vitamin deficiencies, or maternal response to stressful life events, are hypothesized to alter the developmental trajectory of a genetically vulnerable brain. Because almost all of the environmental risk factors affect large populations, it is hypothesized that only a minority of exposed persons have the genetic background necessary ultimately needed to develop the disease.

NATURAL HISTORY Most individuals who develop a schizophrenic psychotic disorder will have a chronic illness. The severity of positive, negative, cognitive, and mood symptoms is highly variable, as is the severity of social and vocational disability. Long-term outcome varies from sustained, complete recovery, to severe disability from chronic residual symptoms. In this section we discuss prognosis and factors that are associated with prognosis.

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RECOVERY AND CHRONICITY Not all individuals who develop schizophrenia develop chronic symptoms and functional impairment. Most patients will experience symptomatic remission from their first episode (Derks et al. 2010; Emsley et al. 2007; Henry et al. 2010; Lieberman et al. 2003), but almost all of these patients will later have symptomatic relapse and clinical deterioration. Definitions of sustained recovery are varied, but all require both remission of symptoms and good social and vocational function. Studies find that between 1% and 38% of the individuals meeting criteria for schizophrenia will enjoy a sustained symptomatic and functional recovery after one or more psychotic episodes (Harrison et al. 2001; Huber et al. 1980; Lauronen et al. 2005; Wiersma et al. 1998). These studies, despite methodological limitations, paint a consistent picture: as many as one of every five individuals who develop a schizophrenic psychotic disorder will have a sustained recovery, and a small proportion completely recover from a first episode without subsequent relapse. The consistent finding that most patients recover from a first episode and that a substantial minority may have a relatively benign course may be surprising to clinicians who regularly treat individuals with schizophrenia. Functional disability and persistent or recurrent symptoms are common in most patients who require chronic treatment, and recovery is rarely observed. The reason for the discrepancy between the observations of clinicians and the results of these epidemiological studies is primarily that recovered patients often do not seek ongoing treatment and thus are not part of the population of individuals who require chronic treatment. Long-term prospective and follow-back studies find a range of disability and symptom chronicity in individuals meeting criteria for a schizophrenic psychotic disorder. A significant minority—about 1 of every 10 patients— will have persistent, unremitting psychotic symptoms throughout the course of their illness (Wiersma et al. 1998). By the end of the first decade of illness, a consistent prognostic picture emerges: about one-third of patients will have a relatively good outcome, with no more than mild symptoms and functional impairments; the remaining two-thirds will have moderate to severe symptoms and functional impairments.

DEATH The risk of premature death is increased in persons with schizophrenia. In a recent meta-analysis, the observed number of deaths in persons with schizophrenia was about three times higher than the expected number of deaths (given the person’s age, ancestry, etc.) (Saha et al. 2007). The risk for death by suicide was about 13-fold higher, and risk for accidental death was about

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2-fold higher. Because the greatest risk of suicide appears to be during recovery from a first psychotic episode, specialized treatment during this time is indicated to reduce risk of death by suicide. The risk for death from natural causes, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and lung disease, is about twice the expected risk. The risk for these diseases may be in part genetically based; however, much of the risk may be related to lifestyle and social and environmental factors and thus is potentially preventable. Independent of cancers associated with tobacco use, the overall cancer risk appears not to be elevated in persons with schizophrenia (Catts et al. 2008). Examination of risk of cancers that are related to tobacco use revealed a modest increased risk for lung cancer (~1.3-fold) but no difference in risk for bladder cancer. After adjustment for tobacco use, the risk of lung and bladder cancer was actually about 1.5-fold lower in persons with schizophrenia compared with the general population. The overall risk of cancer was significantly less (about 10% less than expected) in first-degree relatives of persons with schizophrenia. The reason for this relatively surprising finding is unclear but leads to speculation about genetic vulnerability factors for schizophrenia that may also be protective against cancer.

FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH PROGNOSIS The cause of the extreme heterogeneity in long-term outcome—from complete recovery to incapacitating symptoms and disability—is not known but is of obvious interest. Prognosis is very likely related in part to the extent and severity of the underlying disease pathology. Disease course also may be related to environmental factors, including the extent that treatment is optimal, the support and demands of the patient’s community, and the availability of resources to support recovery. Evidence suggests that most patients with schizophrenia have a neuroprogressive component to their disease that potentially could be prevented by optimal treatment and support (Lieberman 2006). To better predict prognosis and also to develop treatment strategies that could improve outcome, numerous studies have examined the relation between clinical, demographic, and treatment variables and outcome.

CLINICAL FEATURES AND ENVIRONMENT Clinical features associated with a poor prognosis include poor premorbid social and school function, insidious onset, earlier age at onset, prominent negative symptoms, more severe cognitive impairments, and male sex (Tsang

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EFFECT OF ANTIPSYCHOTICS ON PROGNOSIS Although antipsychotic drugs are an effective treatment of psychotic symptoms, debate continues over whether the introduction of antipsychotics has affected the course and ultimate prognosis of schizophrenic psychotic disorders. The evidence that addresses this issue includes comparisons of outcomes before and after the availability of antipsychotics, clinical studies that examined the effect of maintenance antipsychotic treatment on outcome, and studies that examined the relation of duration of psychosis before first treatment initiation to outcome. This body of research provides indirect support for the notion that antipsychotic medications positively influence prognosis. The long-term outcomes of first-episode patients from prospective or follow-back studies conducted prior to the introduction of antipsychotics are significantly worse than the outcomes from studies conducted after the introduction of antipsychotics (Hegarty et al. 1994). Supporting the observation of improved prognosis since the introduction of antipsychotics is an analysis of outcomes from a cohort of patients that bridged the introduction of antipsychotics (Huber et al. 1980). In this study, patients who received antipsychotics for their first psychotic episode 1) were more likely to have a complete remission than were those who had their first episode before antipsychotics were available (27.9% vs. 14.6%) and 2) generally had less severe psychopathology at long-term follow-up (mean=22 years).

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Epidemiological outcome studies generally do not report the relation of sustained recovery from a first psychotic episode and maintenance antipsychotic treatment. Studies do report that antipsychotic use is associated with reduced likelihood of relapse after recovery from a first episode (Robinson et al. 1999; Wunderink et al. 2007; Zarate and Tohen 2004). Recurrent episodes early in the course of illness are associated with increased likelihood of developing chronic residual positive and negative symptoms, suggesting that relapse may result in clinical deterioration (Lieberman et al. 2008). In addition, there is good evidence that the shorter the duration of the first episode of psychosis prior to initiating antipsychotics, the greater the level of symptomatic and functional recovery (Perkins et al. 2005). The relation of duration of initial untreated psychosis and outcome is independent of premorbid function or mode of onset. Thus, antipsychotic medication may affect a progressive pathological process. These findings support the notion that relapse prevention through maintenance antipsychotic use may improve long-term outcomes.

CONCLUSION The course of schizophrenia is highly heterogeneous, with outcomes ranging from complete recovery to chronic incapacity. Numerous factors are associated with outcome, and several treatment interventions may increase the likelihood of sustained recovery. First, antipsychotic treatment and other interventions should occur as close to psychosis onset as is possible. Second, long-term maintenance treatment is also associated with sustained recovery. Almost all patients, but not every patient, will require maintenance antipsychotic treatment to remain in recovery, but it is not currently possible to discern reliably those individuals who will have a benign course from those who will have a more severe course. Prevention of recurrent episodes is likely to be critical to preventing disease progression (Lieberman et al. 2008). Interventions that encourage family and social support may also impact prognosis. Although even more speculative, optimal prenatal care that includes appropriate vitamin supplementation and minimization of pre- and perinatal complications, including maternal infectious disease, exposure to stressful life events, and obstetrical complications, may influence disease risk as well as disease severity.

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Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness characterized by positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms that affect almost all aspects of mental activity, including perception, attention, memory, and emotion. Symptoms are associated with various degrees of persistent social and functional impairments. Schizophrenia affects about 1% of the U.S. population (see Chapter 1, “Epidemiology and Natural History” in this book). It is estimated that people with schizophrenia occupy 10% of hospital beds in the United States, and approximately 30% of people with the disease are hospitalized at one point in their lives; 20% live in supervised housing (e.g., group homes). Schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder together constitute the fifth leading cause of disability (World Health Organization 2008) and are responsible for more years of life lived with disability than all malignancies and HIV combined (Harrow et al. 1997; Moller et al. 1988). The disorder begins usually in late adolescence and early adulthood. The median age at onset is about 23 years in men and 28 years in women. Onset is rare before 16 years and uncommon after 50 years. The disorder can have a relatively acute onset, over the course of 2–3 weeks, or an insidious one.

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ESSENTIALS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA Most individuals experience a prodromal phase before the first episode during which certain signs and symptoms will be present, but the criteria for the disorder are not all fulfilled (McGorry et al. 1996).

DIAGNOSIS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA The definitions and criteria used to establish the diagnosis of schizophrenia have undergone important and wide changes over the years despite the fact that the definition and descriptions of the symptoms themselves have remained rather stable. Traditionally, American nosology was based on Bleuler’s four “A’s”: disturbance in Affect, Association, Autism, and Ambivalence. These criteria resulted in a relatively broad concept of schizophrenia, which was elaborated in the second edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSMII; American Psychiatric Association 1968). DSM-III (American Psychiatric Association 1980) and DSM-III-R (American Psychiatric Association 1987) brought about a radical departure from this approach and introduced a much narrower concept with 1) a clear limitation of the number and type of symptoms, 2) a requirement for a specific duration of symptoms, and 3) the inclusion of a course criterion. This development was the result of critiques of the lack of reliability and validity of diagnosis (Beck et al. 1962; Spitzer and Fleiss 1974) and the important influence of Schneider’s “first-rank symptoms” (Schneider 1959, 1974), which focused on specific allegedly pathognomonic symptoms of schizophrenia (e.g., thought broadcasting, thought insertion, auditory hallucinations of voices commenting on one’s activity). In addition, the work of the Washington University School (Feighner et al. 1972) introduced the requirement of duration of at least 6 months before the diagnosis could be established. The definition of schizophrenia in DSM-III was largely based on Schneiderian first-rank symptoms and a required duration of 6 months, including prodromal and residual periods of illness. This definition resulted in a much narrower concept of schizophrenia, somewhat closer to the British and European concept of the disorder. There was a further narrowing with the introduction of DSM-IV (American Psychiatric Association 1994), and its text revision, DSM-IV-TR (American Psychiatric Association 2000), which include specific negative symptoms. Criterion A in DSM-IV includes four positive symptoms and one negative symptom; at least two of these have to be present for this criterion to be fulfilled. The criterion for duration of acute phase symptoms was extended from 1 week to 1 month. If delusions (criterion A) are judged to be bizarre, only this single symptom is required to satisfy criterion A for schizophrenia. Similarly, the di-

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agnosis of schizophrenia can be made with only hallucinations within criterion A, if these consist of voices keeping up a running commentary on the person’s behavior or thoughts or if two or three voices are conversing with each other. The greatest difference between DSM-III-R and DSM-IV criteria for schizophrenia is in the description of characteristic symptomatology. The criterion for duration of acute-phase symptoms is extended from 1 week to 1 month. Hallucinations are no longer required to be prominent. DSM-IV (and DSMIV-TR) uses the term disorganized speech instead of incoherence or marked loosening of associations for schizophrenic thought disorder. DSM-IV includes negative symptoms, such as affective flattening, alogia, and avolition, in criterion A. For criterion B, the requirement for a decrease in social/occupational functioning is broadened. Criterion C requires continuous signs of the disorder for at least 6 months, whereas criterion D delineates schizophrenia from schizoaffective and mood disorders. This definition of schizophrenia remains somewhat different in the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10; World Health Organization 1992). ICD-10 takes a more cross-sectional approach without including the decline in social/occupational functions as required by DSM-IV. The requirement for duration of symptoms is reduced to only 1 month, in contrast to 6 months in DSM-IV. Among the positive symptoms, Schneiderian symptoms are well represented, and only one is required for the diagnosis of schizophrenia, reflecting the pathognomonic importance ICD-10 continues to give to the Schneiderian first-rank symptoms. Negative symptoms such as marked apathy, paucity of speech, and blunting or incongruity of emotional responses are given more prominence as well. The ICD-10 definition is narrower than the DSM-IV definition regarding positive symptoms in that it requires predominantly Schneiderian first-rank symptoms. Although ICD-10 includes a prodromal phase in schizophrenia, the criterion of greater than 1 month’s duration of symptoms does not include the prodromal phase. Conversely, DSM-IV acknowledges the prodromal phase, which may be present during the 6-month diagnostic period and is part of the evolving disorder. In terms of affective symptoms, DSM-IV criteria for schizophrenia allow for the presence of affective symptoms if the symptoms are relatively brief, whereas ICD-10 specifies that they must follow the psychotic symptoms. The subtypes of ICD-10 and DSM-IV are undifferentiated, residual, disorganized (hebephrenic in ICD-10), catatonic, and paranoid schizophrenia (see section “Subtypes of Schizophrenia” and Table 2–1 later in this chapter). In addition, ICD-10 contains simple and postschizophrenic depression as further subtypes.

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DIAGNOSTIC ASSESSMENT TOOLS The diagnostic classifications most often used in clinical practice are DSM-IVTR and ICD-10. The Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC; Spitzer et al. 1978) are mostly used in research. The reliability of diagnostic assessments and of the characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia can be improved by the use of structured interview instruments. Among these are the Present State Examination (PSE; Wing 1970), Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS; Endicott and Spitzer 1978), Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS; Robbins et al. 1981), Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID; First et al. 1997), and Comprehensive Assessment of Symptoms and History (CASH; Andreasen 1985). In the following sections, we discuss the characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia, their differential diagnosis, their assessment, and some of their neurocognitive correlates. The symptoms are grouped into five syndromal domains—1) positive symptoms, 2) negative symptoms, 3) cognitive symptoms, 4) excitement symptoms, and 5) anxiety/depression symptoms— based on our own analyses of extensive psychometric data (Lindenmayer et al. 1994, 1995).

DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYNDROMAL CONCEPT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA Schizophrenia is a disorder with a significant heterogeneous presentation of symptoms both in individual patients and over the course of the illness. Crow (1980, 1985), in a seminal contribution, described type I and type II schizophrenia, which he considered dichotomous syndromes with relatively independent underlying pathophysiological processes. Crow postulated that the negative syndrome (type II schizophrenia) would be stable because it was hypothesized to reflect structural brain abnormalities (e.g., enlarged ventricles) and dopaminergic hypofunction leading to lesser antipsychotic responsiveness and to poor outcome. Type II reflected an underlying degenerative process or a developmental impairment. In contrast, patients with positive schizophrenia (type I schizophrenia) had normal brain structures, good response to treatment, and better outcomes. Andreasen and Olsen (1982) further elaborated the syndromal concept of schizophrenia by contributing definitive psychopathological descriptions of the two domains. They proposed that positive-symptom patients and negative-symptom patients can be classified into two distinct categories. However, this dichotomous typological

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approach was later found not to be valid because many patients could not be classified as belonging to either category and in fact showed features of both syndromes (Andreasen et al. 1990; Kay 1990). A heuristically fruitful approach is to consider the positive and negative syndromes as representing different psychopathological dimensions rather than coexclusive subtypes of schizophrenia (Kay 1990). The two syndromes differ in their association with premorbid functioning, family history of illness, cognitive profile, and neurological signs. Another important reason for the development and renewed research interest in the characteristics of positive and negative syndromes was the development of rating scales for the assessment of schizophrenia symptoms, which used the subdivision into positive and negative symptoms (see Andreasen 1982; Fenton and McGlashan 1992; Kay et al. 1987; Moller et al. 1994): Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS; Overall and Gorham 1962), an 18item symptom scale that includes a more narrow set of schizophrenia symptoms; and the Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms (SAPS) and the Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS) (Andreasen 1982), consisting of 35 and 29 items, respectively. The SAPS includes five subscales of symptoms (hallucinations, delusions, bizarre behavior, positive formal thought disorder, and inappropriate affect), whereas the SANS includes five areas of negative symptoms (affective flattening or blunting, alogia, avolitionapathy, anhedonia-asociality, attention). Similarly, Kay and colleagues (1987) created the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), consisting of three subscales measuring 7 positive, 7 negative, and 16 general psychopathology symptoms. Both scales have developed precise operationalized item descriptions with defined levels of severity. They have shown excellent reliability and internal and external validity, resulting in their wide use in research and treatment studies. The traditional positive-negative distinction of schizophrenic phenomenology is incomplete and must be enlarged to include other, in part nonoverlapping, syndromal domains, such as cognitive and affective symptoms. A number of studies have examined the symptom presentation of large samples of patients with schizophrenia using factor analysis of symptoms assessed with the newer symptom scales. These studies have resulted in a number of expanded syndromal models of schizophrenia. Most factor analyses based on the SAPS and the SANS have suggested a clustering of schizophrenia symptoms into three factors (Andreasen et al. 1995; Liddle 1987; Peralta et al. 1992): 1) positive or psychotic cluster (hallucinations, delusions, catatonic symptoms), 2) negative cluster (anhedonia, avolition, poverty of speech, blunted affect), and 3) disorganization cluster (disorganized speech, inappropriate affect, bizarre behavior). Using the PANSS,

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ESSENTIALS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA Lindenmayer et al. (1994) proposed a five-factor model of schizophrenia, consisting of a positive factor (delusions, hallucinatory behavior, grandiosity, unusual thought content, suspiciousness/persecution), a negative factor (blunted affect, emotional withdrawal, poor rapport, passive/apathetic social withdrawal, lack of spontaneity, active social avoidance), an excitement factor (excitement, hostility, uncooperativeness, poor impulse control), a cognitive factor (conceptual disorganization, difficulty with abstract thinking, disorientation, poor attention, preoccupation), and a depression/anxiety factor (anxiety, guilt feelings, tension, depression). This model has proved to be very robust across various phases of the illness, cross-culturally and longitudinally, as well as stable after antipsychotic treatments (Lindenmayer et al. 1995; Marder et al. 1997; Peralta et al. 1992; Toomey et al. 1997; White et al. 1997). In addition, it is heuristically plausible that each psychopathological syndromal dimension relates to an underlying pathophysiological abnormality, which in turn may be associated to one or more liability genes. This approach also has the advantage of accommodating the apparent continuity of some clinical manifestations seen in disorders represented in the schizophrenia spectrum concept. The syndromal approach furthermore allows for the evaluation of treatment interventions on each one of the psychopathological domains separately and to define comorbidity phenomena more appropriately. Refining the negative syndrome concept further, Carpenter and colleagues (1988, 1991) called attention to the differences between primary negative symptoms and secondary negative symptoms. Primary negative symptoms are thought to be expressions of the avolitional aspects of schizophrenia, to fluctuate less over the course of the illness, to be less responsive to situational changes, and to rarely remit (Carpenter and Kirkpatrick 1988). Secondary negative symptoms are reversible and often caused by drug effects (e.g., extrapyramidal symptoms), depression, or absence of stimulation. Carpenter and Kirkpatrick (1988) also proposed referring to primary negative symptoms as “deficit symptoms.” In the next sections, we describe in detail positive symptoms, negative symptoms, cognitive symptoms, excitement symptoms, and symptoms of depression and anxiety in schizophrenia.

POSITIVE SYMPTOMS CONCEPT OF POSITIVE SYMPTOMS Positive symptoms of schizophrenia are symptoms that are in excess of or distortions of normal functions—specifically additions to normal thoughts, emo-

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tions, or behaviors (Weiden et al. 1999). Because of their relatively easier recognition and easier quantitative assessment, positive symptoms, more than negative symptoms, have been used in the past in diagnostic classificatory systems. Positive symptoms can be present throughout the different phases of the disorder, from the prodromal phase to the acute psychotic phase and, to a lesser degree, the more stable postpsychotic or residual phase. Positive symptoms are generally the targets of treatment with antipsychotic medications and are considered to be treatment responsive.

DELUSIONS Delusions are false beliefs about which a person is firmly convinced and is impervious to outside contradictory evidence. Delusions must be distinguished from a person’s religious or cultural beliefs. Generally, the latter are also held by the group or community of people who form the individual’s religious or cultural group and do not interfere with day-to-day functioning as delusions often do in patients with schizophrenia. Delusional perception may be an important starting point for the development of a system of delusional ideas. An abnormal significance, usually in the sense of self-reference, despite the absence of any emotional or logical reason, is attributed to a normal perception (Fish 1984). For example, an individual with schizophrenia observes that the traffic light is switching from green to red and concludes that it means to him personally that an outside force is telling him to curb his homosexual interests. Such primary delusional experiences will then be expanded and elaborated into a group of secondary delusions. At times, these delusions will be highly systematized and complex, centering on one or two themes. Systematized delusions are usually seen in patients who are cognitively intact and who function quite well outside an acute episode. Delusions in their mildest form may be questioned by the individual and persist for weeks to months (Andreasen 1984). The presence of bizarre delusions, which are entirely inconsistent with shared social realism and are illogical to most people, are recognized by DSM-IV-TR as being sufficient as a characteristic symptom (Cluster A) to qualify for schizophrenia, underlining the weight this symptom is attributed in the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Examples of bizarre delusions include an individual reporting his heart is missing or that aliens are seeking that individual to rule their planet.

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Capgras syndrome.

Organic delusional syndrome. DSM-IV-TR places organic delusional syndrome (ICD-9-Clinical Modification [CM]; World Health Organization 1978) under psychotic disorder due to general medical condition with delusions. The psychotic disturbance is identifiable from history, physical examination, or laboratory results. The delusions are the unequivocal physiological corollary of a general medical condition. Whereas multiple delusions can be present in these syndromes, they are accompanied typically by disorientation, confusion, and memory impairments, which determine the correct diagnosis. In addition, hallucinatory experiences often complete the clinical picture.

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Affective disorder with psychotic features. Delusions in manic or depressive states are usually mood-congruent—that is, they are consistent with the underlying mood, both for the manic state (inflated worth, power, wealth) and for the depressive state (guilt, death, deserving punishment).

Types of Delusions Persecutory delusions. Individuals afflicted with persecutory delusions believe they are being conspired or discriminated against, threatened, or intentionally victimized. The conspiracy or victimization can be by someone familiar to them (e.g., a family member, friend, doctor, or nurse), someone in the media (e.g., a television personality), a powerful external organization (e.g., the FBI, KGB, or CIA), religious figures such as the devil, or extraterrestrial forces. Persecutory delusions are among the most common symptoms of schizophrenia, although they can also be seen in delusional disorder, psychotic depression, and organic delusional syndromes. Particularly, delusions with mood incongruent or idiosyncratic content are seen in persons with schizophrenia. Individuals sometimes report opposite influences, resulting in a persecutory delusional conviction of being controlled by opposing outside forces, such as God or the devil, matter and antimatter, the sun and the moon, or positive and negative electron charges. Individuals may be convinced that there are sophisticated electronic devices secretly hidden in all areas of their surroundings that spy on them and monitor their every movement. The delusions can be systematized and can lead to inappropriate or irresponsible actions jeopardizing the safety of the individual or others.

EXAMPLE Mr. A felt that he was under constant government surveillance through planted microphones and hidden cameras in the ceiling and was receiving through electronic devices irritating high-frequency tones affecting his arms and legs. These tones were interfering with his functioning and his relationships with others. He believed that all were involved in this plot, which ultimately was designed to kill him because he was a spy.

Individuals with delusions of reference attach a personal meaning to the actions, remarks, and statements of other people, and to objects or events when in fact there is none. A common example is an individual’s belief that a television program is specifically directed at him or her. There is a conviction of certitude that the individual’s observation is absolutely correct without the need of any corroboration by others or any other supporting evidence. In contrast, when a nondelusional individual is unsure that the remark, action, or statement is referring to him or her, the person will be suspicious and will be able to acknowledge that the idea is misguided. Delusions of reference.

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Delusions of being controlled.

EXAMPLE A person with schizophrenia responded to the question: Is somebody influencing your mind or your head? “Yes, they have a weapon that the CIA and the Defense Department use. They use microwaves. They send them inside your head. They convert these from analog to digital. They pick up your thoughts and they change you to another person.”

Individuals with thought insertion believe that some of their thoughts are not their own but have been implanted by an outside agency. Often, there is a persecutory theme and a sense that their thoughts are controlled or manipulated by an outside agency. The condition differs from the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive patients, where patients may be distraught by recurrent intrusive thoughts but are certain that these thoughts originate from their own mind and not by an outside force. In schizophrenia, individuals misplace their own intentions and attribute them to an agency or to someone else (Frith et al. 1992).

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Thought withdrawal and thought broadcasting. The individual believes that thoughts have been taken out of his or her mind. Further, the individual can often trace the initial experience of a thought and then the incident of that thought being removed. In thought broadcasting, one’s thoughts are passively transmitted to others, often through electronic or telepathic means.

Individuals with delusions of sin or guilt believe that they have committed a terrible crime. These delusions can manifest themselves as a minor error in the past that the individual believes may lead to a major disaster or divine retribution that can also affect his or her family. They may also be associated with grandiose ideas that the committed sin will destroy the whole world and also may be associated with delusions of nihilism. The content of these delusions usually is bizarre and mostly mood incongruent. In contrast, delusions of sin and guilt that are seen in severe depressive episodes with psychotic symptoms are usually comprehensible and ego-syntonic (i.e., referring Delusions of sin or guilt.

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to a person’s personality aspects, thoughts, or behaviors that are viewed by the person as acceptable). In persons with psychotic depression, these moodcongruent delusions are usually associated with vegetative symptoms of depression, ideas of hopelessness, worthlessness, and possibly suicidal ideation.

EXAMPLE An individual with schizophrenia believed that he had killed millions of Jews during World War II, although he was born after 1945. He stated that he felt he was worse than Hitler; in fact, he believed he was the greatest killer in the world and deserved punishment for his deeds.

Individuals who experience delusions of grandiosity believe they have extraordinary powers, wealth, fame, or talents. They may think they are religious saviors, world leaders, or famous persons. Grandiose delusions in the extreme can affect behavior, be acted upon, and lead to irresponsible or dangerous and even deadly actions (e.g., believing that one has the ability to fly and stepping out of a window). Grandiose delusions are also seen in individuals with mania with psychosis. Other manic features, such as elated mood, hyperactivity and expansiveness, flight of ideas, and accelerated speech, will help in the differential diagnosis. Grandiose delusions.

EXAMPLE An individual displaying grandiose delusions answered to a question regarding whether he had any special talents: “I am very famous. I am known in London and Paris as an inventor; I have invented candy bars, which bear my name. They are writing a book about me.”

Somatic delusions consist of preoccupations that a body part is diseased or malfunctions without objective medical evidence. The delusion can involve a false belief in a medical condition or physical deformity. These delusions are at times associated with kinesthetic hallucinations representing abnormal somatic perceptions supporting the delusional somatic belief. Somatic delusions must be differentiated from hypochondriacal preoccupations, which are exaggerated fears of somatic illness and tend not to be bizarre as in the case of schizophrenic somatic delusions. Further, hypochondriacal preoccupations are not attributed to external forces. In contrast to the hypochondriacal individual, the person with schizophrenia reacts to rather significant but delusionally held medical morbidity remarkably calmly. Somatic delusions.

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HALLUCINATORY EXPERIENCES A hallucination is defined as a sensory perception in the absence of any externally generated stimulus or perception. Certain abnormal sensory perceptions are reported as distinct from actual hallucinations and could be called “prehallucinatory experiences.” They include hypersensitivity to sound, light, smells, misperceptions of movements, and changes in the perception of people’s faces or bodies. These abnormal perceptions are often seen during the prodromal phase of schizophrenia.

Auditory Hallucinations Auditory hallucinations are the most common type of hallucinations observed in individuals with schizophrenia. Auditory hallucinations are usually voices that often comment on the person’s everyday activities, that may be threatening, or that, in rare cases, command the individual to execute an action (Andreasen et al. 1995; Mueser et al. 1990). Less frequently, the hallucinations are sounds other than voices. Voices may be heard from inside one’s head or may appear to come from the outside. They may be perceived as being as clear as the voice of the interviewer, or less frequently, they are muffled and difficult to understand. Usually, the sentence structure of the voices is clear, although at times, when the voices consist of insults or accusations, they may be just short, monosyllabic words. Often voices are accusatory, hostile, or unfriendly. They consist of a string of sentences, may be continuous, and may occur every day. Occasionally, as with delusional beliefs of powerful opposite forces, patients may report “good” and “bad” voices. The response to auditory hallucinations may vary. In acute stages of the illness, patients may be terrified. They may be seen to respond in an audible fashion to auditory hallucinations or, if in distress about them, to scream or yell at them. In more chronic stages of the illness patients will display little affect or emotional responses to what would appear to the interviewer to be rather terrifying voices. The execution of commands transmitted by auditory hallucinations is rare, although some patients will follow the instructions that can lead to suicidal or homicidal actions. Auditory hallucinations are reported by 50%–70% of patients with schizophrenia (Andreasen and Flaum 1991; Hoffman et al. 2003; Sartorius et al. 1974). Patients with schizophrenia rarely present auditory hallucinations in isolation. The hallucinations are usually associated with delusional interpretations, which may be attempts at explaining abnormal perceptions or, con-

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versely, be elaborations of a delusional paranoid system. In fact, single auditory hallucinations (elementary hallucination) should alert the clinician to look for another, nonschizophrenia diagnosis. Auditory hallucinations in individuals with psychotic depression tend to consist of short sentences and are mood congruent. Auditorization of thoughts refers to instances when individuals report that they hear their thoughts aloud in their head. They can clearly describe this phenomenon and at times are able to differentiate these loud thoughts from ordinary silent thoughts. It is possible that auditorization of thoughts is a precursor of auditory hallucinations.

Visual Hallucinations Individuals with visual hallucinations observe people, shapes, colors, and objects that are not physically present. Visual hallucinations are less frequent in individuals with schizophrenia compared with those with delirium. Visual hallucinations tend to be associated with delusional interpretation of threatening or persecutory themes, or, in the context of religious delusions, they are seen as visions of religiously meaningful figures. The major differential diagnosis is with visual hallucinations encountered in organic and delirious states. The latter hallucinations are more elementary in nature, often represent animals, and may be accompanied by tactile hallucinations. The presence of significant cognitive impairment (e.g., disorientation) will help to rule in an organic etiology.

Somatic and Tactile Hallucinations Somatic and tactile hallucinations involve physical sensations, for example, of being touched by another person, object, or animal, or a perception that one’s body has been altered in some way. These hallucinations are also known as haptic or kinesthetic hallucinations and consist of the perception of heat, cold, or electricity shocks. The individual can also experience somatic passivity, in which the patient believes that an outside agent has caused him or her to be a passive receiver of unwanted bodily sensations, for example a burning sensation in the brain or a sensation of being raped.

Olfactory Hallucinations Olfactory hallucinations are sensations, such as unusual smells, that no one else around the individual experiences. Often, olfactory hallucinations are related to gustatory hallucinations, in which the individual may describe unusual tastes like sweet, salty, bitter, or odd flavors (Carter 1992). These hallucinations are often associated with a persecutory theme. Olfactory halluci-

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BIZARRE BEHAVIOR Some individuals with schizophrenia behave in unusual and eccentric ways or transgress social mores. For example, they may talk to themselves, walk backward, laugh suddenly without explanation, make unnatural faces, mimic behaviors, masturbate in public, engage in repetitive behaviors, express manneristic speech patterns, or maintain a rigid posture for an extensive period of time. Bizarre behavior is generally found in individuals with disorganized or catatonic schizophrenia.

Clothing and Appearance Some individuals with schizophrenia may dress in an uncommon manner or modify their appearance in an eccentric fashion but more often neglect their appearance, which results in disheveled clothing, an unkempt look, and lack of personal hygiene. Patients often may overdress during warm weather.

Social and Sexual Behavior Individuals’ social and sexual behavior may at times represent a deviation from the norm. For example, masturbating in public, mimicking the behaviors of others, and spontaneous laughter or sudden outbursts may occur.

Motor Behavior Bizarre motor behavior can involve unusual mannerisms, grimacing, or rocking movements. Stereotyped and ritualistic movements can be observed. Catatonic motor behavior is an extreme form of bizarre behavior that can include maintaining a rigid or unnatural posture with an awkward, stilted, disorganized appearance, and resisting efforts to be moved or engaging in purposeless and unstimulated motor activity. Waxy flexibility, a rare form of catatonic motor behavior, consists of maintenance of postures that the examiner has induced in the individual. An important differential diagnostic issue in assessing stereotyped movements is the recognition of involuntary movements caused by tardive dyskinesia. These neurological involuntary movements may look purposeless, repetitive, and stereotypical, but they have characteristic features and are usually located in the extremities or lingual and perioral areas.

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Inappropriate Affect This affective dysfunction is at times incorrectly classified under flat affect; however, it reflects not an absence of affect, but rather incongruity of affect. Affect expression is misplaced and does not correspond to the ideational content the person is expressing at the time. Sudden and unexpected discharges of affect may occur. The patient may smile while talking about a sad topic or may unexpectedly burst out in anger when discussing a minor psychological insult.

NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS CONCEPT OF NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS Negative symptoms are a frequent and persistent characteristic of schizophrenia. They can emerge as early as during the prodromal stage of the disorder, long before the presentation of the first psychotic episode (Hafner et al. 1995). It is generally accepted that there are primary and secondary negative symptoms (Carpenter and Kirkpatrick 1988; Tandon and Greden 1989). Primary negative symptoms are deficit symptoms that may precede psychosis onset and usually persist between the episodes. These symptoms include primary anhedonia, flattening and narrowing of affect, poverty of speech, avolition, and reduced social activity (Carpenter and Kirkpatrick 1988). Secondary negative symptoms are “nondeficit” symptoms and are hypothesized to correlate with psychotic episodes, depression or demoralization, and medication side effects (Carpenter et al. 1991). Secondary negative symptoms usually respond to treatment of the underlying cause.

COURSE OF NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS Studies generally show that negative symptoms are more stable than positive symptoms over time and are less likely to improve over the course of illness (Addington and Addington 1991; Crow 1981; Hull et al. 1997; Kay et al. 1986; Lindenmayer et al. 1984; Pfohl and Winokur 1982). In a longitudinal study of symptoms, Arndt and colleagues (1995) found that negative symptoms were already prominent at the time of the individuals’ first episode and remained relatively stable for approximately 2 years in which the individuals were followed. Hafner et al. (1999), exploring five SANS measures of negative symptoms, found that in a sample of 115 first episodes of schizophrenia, alogia, attention, affect, abulia, and anhedonia persisted over a 5-year period. Similarly, Amador and colleagues (1999) presented evidence for a high degree of stability of primary negative symptoms over an approximate 4-year follow-

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SPECIFIC NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS Blunted or Flat Affect Blunted or flat affect is characterized by an absence and diminution of emotional reaction to stimuli. Some affected individuals show fewer emotions (e.g., anger, pleasure, sadness), whereas others exhibit a total lack of facial expression (Salem and Kring 1999). However, despite this lack of affect these individuals report sensations of positive and negative emotions (Kring and Neale 1996). An important differential diagnosis is pseudoparkinsonism (masked facies) induced by antipsychotic medication. The individual shows decreased spontaneous movements and may maintain the same posture, with fewer shifts in body position for some time when sitting. Movements of limbs when walking are reduced. There is also a paucity of expressive gestures. The individual is unable to show emotion by the use of gestures when responding to stimuli. For example, there is a reduction in the use of hand gestures in conjunction with speech to emphasize or enhance the meaning of accompanying speech. The individual avoids direct eye contact or may appear to be staring when responding verbally. The individual lacks vocal inflections and is unable to show emotions by varying the tone of voice. Speech is characterized by a monotonic quality, and words are not emphasized (Andreasen 1983).

Poor Rapport Signs of poor rapport include avoidance of eye contact, lack of responsiveness to questions, and reduced verbal and nonverbal communication of personal information with others. Individuals with poor rapport show a lack of interpersonal empathy, a reduced interaction in conversation, and a lack or total avoidance of interactions with others.

Passive/Apathetic Social Withdrawal Individuals with passive or apathetic social withdrawal have fewer social interactions with others, which can eventually result in a lack of speech (alogia). There is a reduction in social activity and a decrease in interest in forming close relationships. The individual’s interaction with others may be brief and superficial. There may be few or no friends, and most of their time is spent isolated from others. This has also been referred to as asociality or apathy.

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There is a lack of, or impairment in, sexual interests and activities. Individuals may report minimal sexual drive or express a lack of enjoyment from sexual activities (Andreasen 1983).

Reduced sexual interests and activities.

Inability to feel intimacy and closeness. The individual is unable to form a close relationship with others, and there is an inability to recognize others’ emotional needs (Mueser et al. 1996). This results in a lack of mutuality in relationships.

Stereotyped Thinking Individuals with stereotyped thinking show repetitive or barren thoughts that may infringe and interfere with their thinking. The individual maintains rigid beliefs that may appear unreasonable or excessive. Conversations revolve around a recurrent theme, and the individual is unable to shift to a new topic. There is an impoverishment in the amount of nuances and intermediate positions between extreme statements. At the extreme, the individual’s conversation is limited to only a few topics or to repetitive and rigid demands or statements that severely impair the amount and content of conversation.

Alogia Alogia refers to deficient fluency or productivity of thought and speech associated with avolition or apathy. Individuals with alogia demonstrate a restriction in the amount of spontaneous speech and respond to questions with brief, concrete, and unembellished answers. In some instances, the individual does not respond to questions or responses are monosyllabic. Leading questions are constantly needed by the interviewer to proceed with the conversation. Harvey and colleagues (1997) suggest that poverty of speech is more common and more severe in geriatric patients with schizophrenia, perhaps as a result of cognitive and biological factors. The individual’s speech is adequate in amount but expresses little information because it is vague, excessively abstract or concrete, repetitive, or stereotyped.

Poverty of content of speech.

The individual takes a longer time to respond to questions than normal and may appear distant or preoccupied when asked a question.

Increased latency of response.

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EXAMPLE Individuals with chronic schizophrenia on an inpatient psychiatric unit in New York City were exposed to both ample television and newspaper coverage of the World Trade Center attack in New York on September 11, 2001. During group discussions in the aftermath of the tragedy it became clear that patients took relatively little notice of the event, that their emotional response was limited, and that there were few spontaneous verbal expressions about this event.

An important differential diagnostic concern is anhedonia found in states of depression. Anhedonia associated with depression is accompanied by the usual symptoms of depression, such as ideas of hopelessness, worthlessness, and helplessness, together with the vegetative signs of depression. The individual displays a lack of interest in grooming and hygiene. This trait is characterized by sloppy, obsolete, blemished attire, and infrequent daily hygienic activities such as washing hands, combing one’s hair, and brushing one’s teeth.

Grooming and hygiene.

The individual has difficulty seeking or maintaining employment or does not complete tasks in school or work. Impersistence at work or school.

The individual has a tendency to be physically inert. When encouraged, the individual participates briefly and then reverts to immobility. The individual shows a lack of drive or spontaneous activity.

Physical anergia.

DEFICIT STATES OF SCHIZOPHRENIA The concept of deficit schizophrenia was introduced to distinguish a relatively homogeneous subgroup of individuals within schizophrenia. Deficit schizophrenia is characterized by persistent primary negative symptoms such as restricted affect, diminished emotional range, poverty of speech, curbing of interests, and reduced sense of purpose and social drive. Kirkpatrick and colleagues (2001) found that deficit schizophrenia exists among 15% of first-

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episode individuals and among 25%–30% of those with chronic schizophrenia. The clinical features of schizophrenic deficit states refer to the cohesive and idiopathic set of signs and symptoms as presented in the Schedule for Deficit Syndromes (Kirkpatrick et al. 1989).

COGNITIVE SYMPTOMS: CONCEPTUAL DISORGANIZATION/ FORMAL THOUGHT DISORDER Schizophrenic thought disorder is often included under the rubric of positive symptoms, although recent research suggests that it represents an independent dimension of symptomatology in schizophrenia (Andreasen and Olsen 1982; Kay 1990; Liddle 1987; Lindenmayer et al. 1994; Peralta et al. 1992; Thompson and Meltzer 1993). This discrete dimension has been variably called “disorganization factor,” “cognitive factor,” or “thought disorder factor.”

DEFINITIONS AND CLASSIFICATION Disturbance of thinking is a cardinal and almost constant symptom of schizophrenia. It describes a persistent underlying disturbance of conscious thought and is recognized largely by its effects on speech and writing. Bleuler (1911/ 1950) believed that “peculiar association disturbances” were fundamental features of schizophrenia. There is abundant literature on the formal thought and language pathology in schizophrenia. It can be grouped into pathology of word use and pathology of sentence use. According to Oppenheimer (1971), “A word evolves from the lowest level of its meaningless sound quality to the highest level of its metaphorical meaning. Between these levels are, in descending order, connotation, denotation, and verbalization” (p. 228). In schizophrenia there can be deficits in any one of these levels of word formation, such as desymbolization of words, expansions of the meaning of a word, conceptual contaminations, and neologisms. In pathological use of sentences, individuals may not be able to exclude words or ideas that belong to different semantic categories, resulting in a disorganized structure of the sentence appearing as loosening of associations. Adherence to the appropriate mental set or context of a sentence may be incomplete and results in tangentiality. Thought disorders have been grouped into two categories by Andreasen (1982) and Cutting and Murphy (1988): 1) intrinsic disturbance of thinking (e.g., concreteness) and 2) disordered language and speech (e.g., derailment or tangentiality).

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MECHANISMS OF THOUGHT DISORDER Thought disorder is not a unitary concept; it can be better conceptualized in terms of its multidimensional makeup (Cuesta and Peralta 1999). Recent attempts to understand the cognitive underpinnings of thought disorder in schizophrenia have focused on abnormalities in attention, on problems in the use of contextual cues, and on impairments of executive functions. Finally, the role of impairments in executive functions underlying thought disorder is illustrated in detail in Chapter 4, “Neurocognitive Impairments,” of this book.

MEASUREMENT OF THOUGHT DISORDER Careful listening to the word productions and sentence construction of individuals with schizophrenia allows for assessing thought disorder. Difficulty in abstract thinking and concrete thinking can be measured with proverb interpretations and similarities. Proverb interpretation challenges the individual’s ability in abstract-symbolic thinking, in shifting of sets, and in the ability to generalize. The task of establishing similarities reveals difficulties in classification and categorization. Object-sorting tasks can be used to assess overinclusion; an overinclusive reply would include too many or unsuitable items within a group of items. The thought disorder index evaluates the verbal productions of schizophrenic patients in an unstructured interaction (Hurt et al. 1983). The assessment of thought, language, and communication (Andreasen 1979a, 1979b) offers a clinical rating for a series of different types of thought disorders. In addition, the SAPS (Andreasen 1982), the SANS (Andreasen 1982), and the PANSS (Kay et al. 1987), frequently used to assess symptoms in schizophrenia research, provide for some measures of thought disorder.

TYPES OF THOUGHT DISORDERS Derailment (Loosening of Associations) Derailment occurs when an individual’s speech shows loss of logical or meaningful connections between words or sentences. The relationship between sentences may be indirect or may not be present at all. The individual is also unaware of the lack of association between sentences.

EXAMPLE An individual with schizophrenia responded to the request to interpret the proverb “Don’t cry over spilt milk”: “I believe you should release the tension now of all milk on the ground. I think you should cry over spilt milk. I think you should release yourself after all that milk is on the ground. You should let

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it out in tears. You know you hold it inside and you could explode a lot, all of these little things kept inside.”

Tangentiality Tangentiality is a disruption in the associative thought process in which one tends to deviate readily and gradually from the topic under discussion to other topics, which arise in the course of associations, but connections are still recognizable by the listener.

EXAMPLE An individual with schizophrenia complained about a clinician whom she felt made homosexual advances toward her: “She was a pervert homosexual, and she said I was her red painted lady in the closet, and that I knew nothing about this world. But I went to the library and found the red Bible and read up on it, in a hurry. And it was a lie.”

Incoherence Incoherence refers to sentence patterns that are unintelligible and incomprehensible because of total loss of logical connections. At times there are periods of coherent parts that are incorporated in an incoherent sentence. Incoherence can also occur at a semantic level, in which words are substituted in a phrase or sentence and the meaning is distorted. Conjunctions and adjectives can also be deleted (Andreasen 1984). In extreme situations, incoherence can also be referred to as word salad.

EXAMPLE An individual is asked, “How do you feel today?” He responds, “I’m feeling that people say doctors are wrong. In Europe, there was a meeting. The president of the United States, it was AIDS. But in Iraq the man pulled it out with the money under the train tracks. Save yourself, help yourself.” The individual is unable to join the associated concepts of each sentence into one coherent response that would convey a comprehensible meaning to the listener. He shifts sets inappropriately, and there is no relationship among sentences. He is unable to include any logical causality.

Illogicality Individuals who show illogicality respond to questions without a logical rationalization. Examples are non sequiturs, in which the individual formulates an illogical response to a logical question, and faulty inductive inferences, in which the individual makes conclusions based on incoherent assertions (Andreasen 1984).

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Circumstantiality Circumstantiality refers to a disturbance in the thought process, in which the individual gives an unwarranted amount of details, which are frequently tangential, elaborate, and irrelevant, and finds it difficult to make a direct statement or give a direct answer to a question. Circumstantial speech eventually returns to the original topic.

EXAMPLE In the following example, a man with schizophrenia uses circumstantiality and tangentiality in response to a question about his overall life philosophy. “You have to be modern and you have to be sophisticated, you have to have a girlfriend, you have to go to church. You have to have your name in the Bible. You go out with your wife or fiancée. And you have to learn, should be married, and be a good neighbor.”

Clanging Clanging consists of usage of the sound of a word or its phonetic resemblance (clang equivalence) rather than its meaning, which is substituted for the correct word. Some individuals speak only in rhymes, and others will engage in repetitive speech (Capleton 1996) as a substitute for logical associations.

EXAMPLE An individual with schizophrenia explained: “We are liberal Jewish; however, we speak British, not Yiddish.”

Neologism Neologism is another well-recognized pathology of word use, in which a new nonsensical word is created that often is a condensation or combination of two different words. This is in contrast to the creative use of neologisms in everyday language, which elicits in the listener amusement or understanding.

EXAMPLE An individual who considered himself to be overweight, reported to have an “altership.” Asked about its meaning, he explained: “It is me at 177 pounds; then I will be Sonny Boy, a rock star.”

Difficulty in Abstract Thinking Difficulty in abstract thinking is reflected in impairment of symbolic ability to think beyond concrete and egocentric thinking, which leads to difficulties in proverb interpretation and in generalizations. There may be the inverse tendency to be overly abstract and to use stilted or manneristic language. In

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mental status exams, proverb interpretations are commonly used to evaluate an individual’s ability to think abstractly.

EXAMPLE In interpreting the proverb “Don’t cry over spilt milk,” an individual with schizophrenia stated: “Don’t cry over spilt milk are the decisions we make about the decision-making process. The essence of men making decisions.” Another example of overly abstract, stilted speech: “The barrister comported himself utterly brusque when I previously inspected his interface with his patron.”

Echolalia Some schizophrenia patients exhibit echolalia by repeating words, phrases, fragments, or sounds that were presented to them. Related to this is echopraxia, in which the individual repeats or imitates observed gestures or physical expressions.

Thought Blocking Thought blocking refers to cessation or complete interruption in the flow of the stream of thought. It can be interrupted suddenly, and there is a disruption in the flow of conversation. Thought blocking can be recognized when disruptions in speech are abrupt, prominent, and continual. The individual may describe it as a sudden and inclusive “draining of the brain.”

POOR ATTENTION Individuals with schizophrenia often present with poor concentration, distractibility from internal or external stimuli, and difficulties in shifting focus to new stimuli. Individuals will exhibit impaired attention, particularly in the acute psychotic phase. Scanning the environment during a clinical interview rather than focusing on the interviewer’s questions may be seen during the interview. It may be difficult for the individual to follow a more complex set of questions, and he or she may lose track of an interviewer’s question. In another situation, the individual may not be able to respond to a new topic being introduced and will continue to talk about the previous topic, totally oblivious to the new inquiry.

EXCITEMENT SYMPTOMS: HOSTILITY AND AGGRESSION Symptoms contributing to this domain of psychopathology of schizophrenia are hostility, excitement, uncooperativeness, and poor impulse control. We address in this section predominantly the symptoms of hostility and aggression.

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Causes of Aggressive Behavior in Schizophrenia Causes of aggressive behavior are complex and multifactorial. Some important underlying causes are the presence of comorbid substance abuse, substance dependence, and intoxication (Citrome and Volavka 2001; Steadman et al. 1998). In addition, the disease process itself produces hallucinations and delusions, which may provoke violence (Citrome and Volavka 1999). Krakowski and Czobor (1997), in a study examining psychosis and ward turmoil in schizophrenic inpatients, reported that persistent violence, in contrast to episodic violence, was associated with frontal lobe neurocognitive deficits. Episodic violence was associated with significant florid positive symptoms and tended to abate as positive symptoms improved. Such episodic violence can be related to delusional perceptions that other people are persecuting the individual, against which the individual has to defend him- or herself with a preemptive aggressive act. Environmental factors that are associated with aggressive behavior include a chaotic or unstable home or hospital situation, which may encourage maladaptive aggressive behaviors (Owen et al. 1998).

Assessment Aggression can be clinically assessed by means of the Overt Aggression Scale (Yudofsky et al. 1986) or the excitement factor of the PANSS, which also

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includes hostility, uncooperativeness, and poor impulse control. In most studies aggression is measured by using data from different sources (Swanson et al. 2000). Steadman and colleagues (2000) have proposed an actuarial tool for assessing the risk of violence, which has been evaluated in psychiatric inpatients (Monahan et al. 2000).

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS One of the most important differential diagnoses of violent behaviors in individuals with schizophrenia is substance abuse and withdrawal. Substance abuse enhances the probability of aggressive behavior more than schizophrenia alone (Swanson 1994). Aggressive and violent behavior can be triggered by alcohol, cocaine, phencyclidine (PCP), or amphetamine intoxication (Smith and Hucker 1994; Swanson 1994). Additionally, withdrawal from abused substances can lead to hostility and aggressive behavior (Citrome and Volavka 1999; Verhayden et al. 2003). Other less frequent differential diagnostic considerations are medical conditions. Brain injuries, brain tumors, and rarely temporal lobe epilepsies or metabolic disturbances may lead to aggressive behavior in individuals who do not have a prior history of continuous aggressive tendencies.

DEPRESSION, SUICIDE AND SELF-INJURY, AND ANXIETY DEPRESSION Symptoms that contribute to the depressive domain of psychopathology in schizophrenia are anxiety, depression, guilt feelings, and tension. Although not uncommon, these symptoms tend to be associated with specific phases of the illness.

Depressive Symptoms in the Course of Schizophrenia Bottlender and colleagues (2000) found depressive symptoms to be frequent among individuals in a first episode. The ability to distinguish schizophrenia from depression is most difficult early in the course of schizophrenic illness. The prodrome of schizophrenia can resemble depression, and some of the symptoms required in DSM-IV-TR for a major depressive episode (e.g., anhedonia, attention difficulties, psychomotor abnormalities) are common in schizophrenia as well (Andreasen and Flaum 1991). Other differential diagnostic issues to consider include schizoaffective disorder, negative symptoms of schizophrenia, and symptoms of pseudoparkinsonism due to antipsychotic medication effects. Siris (1995) reviewed 30 studies of depression in schizo-

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Postpsychotic Depressive Disorder Postpsychotic depression represents both a reaction to the realization of the damage the illness has caused and a reaction of distress to the symptoms of the illness. It occurs in approximately 25% of psychotic patients ( Jeczmien et al. 2001) and is characterized by significant anhedonia. McGlashan and Carpenter (1976) were the first to present postpsychotic depressive disorder of schizophrenia as a syndrome in itself, which was subsequently included in DSM-IV as a diagnostic entity for further study. Siris (1990) has argued that postpsychotic depression has been used to describe clinically diverse types of patients. In one group of individuals, depressive symptoms are clearly present during an acute psychotic episode and resolve as the positive symptoms resolve, although sometimes more slowly (also referred to as “revealed depression”). In other individuals, significant depressive symptoms appear after the acute episode has resolved. The main clinical symptoms are depressed affect and generalized motor slowness (Jeczmien et al. 2001). Also, Cutler and Siris (1991) reported that approximately one-quarter of people with schizophrenic and postpsychotic depression experience panic attacks, indicating that symptoms of anxiety may be part of the clinical profile of postpsychotic depressive disorder. Further studies (Shuwall and Siris 1994) indicated that in postpsychotic depression, the presence of psychosis and anxiety is linked with a higher level of suicidal ideation regardless of the level of depression.

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Differentiating Depressive Symptoms From Negative Symptoms Several studies have suggested that depression may be associated with negative symptoms (Fitzgerald et al. 2002; Kulhara et al. 1989; Norman et al. 1998; Sax et al. 1996). Overlapping features of depressive symptoms and negative symptoms include reduced social and personal interests, reduced pleasure, diminished energy, and loss of motivation, together with psychomotor retardation (Andreasen and Olsen 1982; Bermanzohn and Siris 1992; Carpenter et al. 1985; Crow 1980; Hausmann and. Fleischhacker 2002; Lindenmayer and Kay 1989; Romney and Candido 2001; Siris 2000). Distinguishing features of depressive symptoms are distinct sad mood, disturbance in sleep and appetite, guilt, hopelessness, or suicidal thoughts suggesting depression, while blunted affect suggests negative symptoms (Barnes et al. 1989; Kibel et al. 1993; Kuck et al. 1992; Lindenmayer et al. 1991; Müller et al. 2001; Norman and Malla 1991).

Is Schizoaffective Disorder a Subtype of Schizophrenia? The term schizoaffective disorder was used to describe individuals showing an overlap of features of schizophrenia and affective disorder (Norman and Malla 1991). More recently, schizoaffective disorder has been classified distinctively according to different diagnostic systems (Barnes et al. 1989; Kibel et al. 1993; Kuck et al. 1992). Operationalized criteria such as those in ICD-10 (World Health Organization 1992) specify schizophrenic depressive symptoms (called postschizophrenic depression), whereby the individual has some schizophrenic symptoms with prominent depressive symptoms that are distressing and fulfill at least one criterion of a depressive episode. In DSM-IV-TR, schizoaffective disorder refers to individuals in whom a full affective syndrome co-occurs with the complete psychotic syndrome but who also have considerable episodes of psychosis in the absence of an affective syndrome. In spite of these specific definitions, discussion persists as to whether schizoaffective disorder should be considered a subtype of schizophrenia, a subtype of affective disorder, a distinct entity with dimensions between schizophrenia and affective disorder, a co-occurrence of two distinct diatheses, or an erroneous concept altogether (Siris 2000). DSM-5 is projected to be released in 2013, The proposed revisions for the diagnostic concept are not very different from DSM -IV. The five characteristic symptoms in Section A continue to be the same, with a requirement of a 1-month period of acute symptoms as before, as is the requirement for the persistence of the disturbance for at least 6 months. The main revision, resulting from a systematic review focusing on subtypes within schizophrenia and within psychotic disorders as a whole, includes the elimination of the DSM-IV sub-

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Measurement of Depression in Schizophrenia The Calgary Depression Rating Scale for Schizophrenia (CDSS) is the standard assessment instrument for measuring depression in schizophrenia, because of its proven reliability and validity (Addington et al. 1990, 1991; Müller et al. 2005).

SUICIDE AND SELF-INJURY Suicide The occurrence of suicide attempts during the course of schizophrenia is a serious complication of the illness. Older studies estimated that 9%–24% of individuals with schizophrenia die by suicide (Caldwell and Gottesman 1992; Siris et al. 1993), but a more recent examination of the lifetime risk of suicide in schizophrenia estimated that the figure is about 5% (Palmer et al. 2005). An estimated 3,600 people with schizophrenia commit suicide each year in the United States alone (Meltzer 1999), a rate more than 20 times higher than in the general population (Allebeck 1989; Black 1988; Meltzer et al. 2000). It has been reported that up to 40% of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia will have at least one suicide attempt in the course of their illness (Meltzer et al. 2000; Planansky and Johnston 1971). Given the clinical relevance of suicide attempts in the course of schizophrenia, several studies have investigated the clinical variables associated with suicidal behavior. Male gender, younger age, unemployment, presence of depressive symptoms (particularly hopelessness), a positive family history for suicide attempts, comorbid substance abuse, lack of a supportive environment, and a longer duration of untreated psychosis have been associated with increased suicide risk in individuals with schizophrenia (Black et al. 1988; Breier and Astrachan 1984; Caldwell and Gottesman 1990; Heila et al. 1997; Siris 2001). Substance and drug use is another important risk factor for suicidal behavior. Heila and colleagues (1997) reported that substance use, particularly alcohol use, is a specific risk factor in older males with schizophrenia. Social dysfunction is an additional risk factor. Continually depressed mood—specifically hopelessness and psychomotor instability—was significantly associated with suicide in a prospective study examining 104 individuals with schizophrenia, 15 of whom committed suicide (Drake et al. 1986).

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Gupta and colleagues (1998), in a study investigating 336 individuals with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder, found that 98 with a history of attempted suicide had exhibited a significantly higher mean number of lifetime depressive episodes compared with 238 individuals with no prior suicidal history. Kaplan and Harrow (1996) have provided prospective evidence that poor overall function, poor social and work function, and poor quality of life are predictive risk factors for later suicide.

Self-Injury The National Mental Health Association (Contero and Lader 1998) describes self-injury, including self-mutilation, self-harm, or self-abuse, as the deliberate, repetitive, impulsive, nonlethal harming of oneself. Self-injury includes 1) cutting, 2) scratching, 3) picking at scabs or interfering with wound healing, 4) burning, 5) punching self or objects, 6) infecting oneself, 7) inserting objects in body openings, 8) bruising or breaking bones, 9) some forms of hairpulling, as well as other various forms of bodily harm. These behaviors are relatively uncommon in individuals with schizophrenia but can lead to significant dangers in individuals’ health when they do occur. Examples of self-injurious behaviors include burning the skin with an iron or cigarette, cutting off a finger, enucleating an eye, or cutting the skin with a knife or razor in a ritualistic manner. Genital self-mutilation is a rare, severe form of self-injurious behavior. It is usually seen in schizophrenia as being the result of delusions and hallucinations (Becker and Hartmann 1997; Martin and Gattaz 1991; Mishra and Kar 2001). Specific risk factors of genital self-mutilation include command hallucinations, religious delusions (Bhargava et al. 2001), substance abuse, and social isolation (Tobias et al. 1988).

ANXIETY Although anxiety is common during the prodromal and the acute psychotic phase, it is less prominent during the chronic stages of the illness. During the prodromal phase, even before the presentation of delusional or hallucinatory manifestations, anxiety can be a very common feature. Anxiety can arise as a component of psychosis. For example, an individual with schizophrenia may become hypervigilant as a reaction to delusional perception and hallucinations. The sudden onset of hallucinations can generate marked depression and anxiety. An important differential diagnosis is the iatrogenic anxiety of akathisia induced by antipsychotic treatment. The timing of onset of the predominant motor restlessness in the legs associated with the antipsychotic treatment may help clarify the diagnosis.

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DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA The diagnosis of schizophrenia is not easy to establish, particularly when individuals present with a first psychotic episode. It should be emphasized that no single feature (e.g., family history, cross-sectional symptomatology) can determine a diagnosis of schizophrenia. A comprehensive history of symptom development, family history, careful clinical interview exploring all symptom dimensions, and review of any physical signs, together with laboratory assessments, will be necessary to arrive at an accurate diagnosis. In terms of symptom presentation, formal thought disorders and affect disorders are characteristic features of schizophrenia. At times, the diagnosis may not be clear in the beginning of the disorder, and there may be need for an extended observation period to examine the stability and course of symptoms. The following psychiatric illnesses must be excluded before diagnosing schizophrenia:

SCHIZOPHRENIFORM DISORDER DSM-IV-TR requires the duration for schizophreniform disorder to be at least 1 month but less than 6 months (American Psychiatric Association 2000, p. 317). Hence, schizophreniform disorder is likely to be diagnosed in individuals who have an abrupt rather than insidious onset and who have good premorbid adjustment. The most important distinctions between the two disorders are mode of onset and duration of symptoms.

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sode, or a mixed episode that meets the respective full criteria together with symptoms that meet criterion A for schizophrenia for at least 1 month (DSM-IV-TR). Schizoaffective disorder differs from schizophrenia in that both the required affective symptoms and the features of schizophrenia are prominent and co-occur (Tsuang et al. 1985). Patients with schizoaffective disorder may also have a relatively abrupt onset of illness and do not meet the social/occupational dysfunction criteria required for a diagnosis of schizophrenia as specified in DSM-IV-TR. DSM-IV-TR specifies that during the episode of illness there have to be delusions and hallucinations for at least 2 weeks that occur in the absence of prominent mood symptoms. Both bipolar and depressive schizoaffective subtypes have been defined.

AFFECTIVE DISORDERS Mood disorders such as bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder with psychotic features are diagnosed when there are psychotic symptoms that occur only during periods of diagnosable mood disturbance. For example, bipolar individuals with mania may display a wide variety of psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations, paranoid delusions, and formal thought disorder (Csernansky 2002). Inflated self-esteem and grandiose ideas may expand into delusions of grandiosity, and irritability and suspiciousness into delusions of persecution. Individuals with schizophrenia will usually have delusions with mood-incongruent and bizarre content, whereas patients with major depressive episodes or bipolar manic episodes may experience hallucinations, and/ or delusions that are usually mood congruent.

DELUSIONAL DISORDER Delusional or paranoid disorder can be frequently confused with schizophrenia. The age at onset of delusional disorder is later than that for schizophrenia, and there is typically less deterioration in occupational and social functioning. Another distinction is that in delusional disorder, there is a wellarticulated, nonbizarre delusional system with only one or two themes. Thus, the diagnosis of delusional disorder does not include hallucinations, disorganized behavior, or negative symptoms (Csernansky 2002).

BRIEF PSYCHOTIC DISORDER Brief psychotic disorder has a rapid onset, generally following a major stressor. Individuals with brief psychotic disorder are characterized by one (or more) positive symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, or grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior. Symptoms of brief psy-

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SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER Schizotypal personality disorder is characterized by social and interpersonal deficits evidenced by reduced competence for relationships, cognitive distortions, and unconventional behavior. Individuals with this disorder may have bizarre forms of thinking and perceiving and often seek isolation from others. Schizotypal personality disorder generally begins in early adulthood and presents in a variety of contexts, as indicated by some of the following symptoms (American Psychiatric Association 2000): ideas of reference (excluding delusions of reference), odd beliefs or magical thinking that influences behavior and is inconsistent with subcultural norms, odd thinking and speech, suspiciousness or paranoid ideation, inappropriate or constricted affect, lack of close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives, and excessive social anxiety. In contrast to schizophrenia, schizotypal personality disorder does not involve delusions or hallucinations, and there is no deterioration in social and occupational functioning.

BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER The main characteristic feature of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a preoccupation with an alleged deficiency in one’s physical body shape. Individuals with BDD may display disproportionate distress about an insignificant imperfection or have persistent, anxiety-provoking feelings concerning a minor flaw. Underlying this distress is a persistent distortion of one’s body scheme, which may take on delusional proportions. Distress is most regularly focused on head and face but may also involve any other body part. Individuals with BDD do not experience hallucinations and disorganized thinking. They do not assign the cause of their distorted body image to outside malevolent forces as patients with schizophrenia often do.

PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS DUE TO MEDICAL CONDITIONS It is important to differentiate psychosis caused by head trauma, brain tumors, multiple sclerosis, Huntington’s disease, or Wilson’s disease from schizophrenia. In these disorders, cognitive symptoms such as disorientation, short-term memory loss, and confusion will predominate the clinical picture. A full neu-

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rological and medical examination will assist with the diagnosis. Also, adverse effects to medications can manifest as psychotic symptoms. For example, symptoms of psychosis can occur during treatment with L-dopa, anticholinergics, and corticosteroids (Guggenheim and Babigian 1974; Rudick et al. 1997).

SUBSTANCE-INDUCED PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS The main characteristic of substance-induced psychotic disorders is the presence of prominent hallucinations and delusions, which are thought to be directly related to the physiological effects of a substance. There has to be evidence, based on history, physical examination, and laboratory findings, that the disorder arises in the context of substance withdrawal or intoxication. Usually, the disorder lasts as long as there is use of the substance (onset during intoxication) or can begin after the individual has stopped using substances (onset during withdrawal). Hallucinogens such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and stimulants such as methamphetamine, amphetamine, cocaine, and PCP can generate visual and auditory hallucinations. Alcohol hallucinations, which tend to be visual and kinesthetic, differ from those seen in schizophrenia in that they occur only after extended use of alcohol and usually last for a short period of time (Csernansky 2002). Generally individuals with substanceinduced psychotic disorders are aware that their hallucinations are not real, which is characteristically not the case with individuals with schizophrenia (Csernansky 2002).

SUBTYPES OF SCHIZOPHRENIA The subtypes of schizophrenia are distinguished by the prevalent symptomatology. Initially, Kraepelin (1919) divided “dementia praecox” into three clinical subtypes: hebephrenic, catatonic, and paranoid. He later expanded on these three subtypes to include several other categories, yet emphasized that the subgrouping of different clinical descriptions was of restricted clinical value (pp. 89–180). Currently, there are various subtypes of schizophrenia as specified by the particular diagnostic system. Table 2–1 presents the most dominant subtypes occurring in schizophrenia patients, which include paranoid, disorganized (hebephrenic), catatonic, undifferentiated, and residual schizophrenia. However, DSM-5, to be released in 2013, will most likely eliminate the DSM-IV subtypes because of insufficient underlying consistent research data (see subsection “Is Schizoaffective Disorder a Subtype of Schizophrenia?” earlier in this chapter).

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Subtypes of schizophrenia (DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10)

Paranoid schizophrenia

Primarily marked by delusions of persecution and/or grandeur and frequent auditory hallucinations. Generally does not include the degree of disorganization of speech/behavior seen in other subtypes. Individuals are tense, suspicious, and guarded. Associated features include anxiety, anger, aloofness, and argumentativeness. Onset often later compared with other schizophrenia subtypes; little or no impairment in neurocognitive functions (American Psychiatric Association 2000). DSM-IV-TR: includes a preoccupation with one or more paranoid delusions, which may be systematized, or frequent auditory hallucinations along with no prominent symptoms of disorganized speech, disorganized behavior, or flat/ inappropriate affect. ICD-10: similar to DSM-IV-TR but excludes paranoia and involutional paranoid state.

Disorganized or hebephrenic schizophrenia

Primarily marked by inappropriate affect, disorganized speech, and maladaptive behavior. Disorganized (hebephrenic) behavior can lead to significant interference with activities of daily living. DSM-IV-TR: includes disorganized speech, disorganized behavior, and flat/inappropriate affect and excludes catatonia and delusions and hallucinations that are systematized into a lucid theme. ICD-10: similar to DSM-IV-TR but adds that the disorganized/hebephrenic subtype should normally be diagnosed for the first time only in adolescents or young adults, with a period of 2–3 months of observation ensuring sustained characteristic features. ICD-10 also indicates that the premorbid personality of these individuals includes timid and solitary behavior.

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Undifferentiated schizophrenia

Incorporates a combination of symptoms from other subtypes. Individuals should meet criterion A of DSM-IV-TR (American Psychiatric Association 2000, p. 312) and should not have symptoms of catatonia or paranoid and disorganized schizophrenia. ICD-10, although following DSM-IV-TR criteria, includes the stipulation that undifferentiated schizophrenia should not satisfy the criteria for residual schizophrenia (described below) or postschizophrenia depression.

Residual schizophrenia

A state in which the individual is not currently suffering from severe delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech and behavior but lacks motivation and interest in day-to-day living. DSM-IV-TR: includes an absence of prominent delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior. It also specifies the existence of negative symptoms or two or more of the symptoms specified in criterion A (American Psychiatric Association 2000, p. 312) present in an attenuated form (e.g., odd beliefs). ICD-10 adds as a requirement an absence of dementia or other organic brain disease or disorder and chronic depression or institutionalism that could explain the negative impairments.

Catatonic schizophrenia

Primarily marked by motor disturbances ranging from immobility to excessive meaningless activity. Dominated by psychomotor symptoms. DSM-IV-TR includes two or more and ICD-10 specifies at least one of the following behaviors: stupor (marked reduction or suspended sensibility) or mutism, excitement not influenced by external stimuli, bizarre postures, meaningless resistance toward instructions or attempts to be moved, rigidity, waxy flexibility, and echolalia or echopraxia. Differential diagnosis includes brain disease, metabolic instability, substance abuse, or mood disorders such as bipolar disorder.

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CONCLUSION Schizophrenia is a disorder with a significant heterogeneous presentation of a variety of symptoms that can affect virtually all areas of psychological functioning and which are best understood to represent separate psychopathological syndromal domains. These major symptom domains include positive, negative, cognitive, excitement, and depression/anxiety symptoms and are found in each patient with schizophrenia to a variable extent. Each of these domains will affect patients’ instrumental, social, and occupational functioning to various degrees and can lead to significant overall functional impairment.

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In this chapter, we review the clinical features that characterize the prodrome and first-episode phases of schizophrenia. We also discuss the current understanding of optimal treatment of the first episode. In particular, recognition and treatment of psychosis soon after illness onset may improve outcomes; however, treatment delay continues to be a public health concern. Pharmacological treatment continues to be the cornerstone of treatment, but other modalities, including individual, group, and family therapies, may increase the likelihood of full recovery.

PRODROME CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS Changes in perception, thought process, and thought content that are psychotic-like, but with less than full psychotic intensity, herald the development of psychosis for about 80% of schizophrenia patients (Perkins et al. 2000).

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PROSPECTIVE RECOGNITION: PSYCHOSIS RISK SYNDROME Several research groups have developed relatively similar clinical criteria to define a “psychosis risk syndrome.” In North American research, the Criteria of Prodromal States (COPS) is the most widely used (Woods et al. 2009). These criteria include the presence of attenuated psychotic symptoms that have developed or worsened recently (in the past year) (Table 3–1). On the basis of these research definitions of a psychosis risk syndrome, efforts to prospectively identify individuals in the prodromal stage, prior to the onset of a full psychotic syndrome, have met with limited success. These studies report that about a third of persons meeting research criteria for psychosis risk syndrome will develop a psychotic disorder within the ensuing 1–2 years (Cannon et al. 2008; Woods et al. 2009; Yung et al. 2008).

TREATMENT APPROACHES The evidence base for indicated prevention of psychosis includes only four small clinical trials, one with an antipsychotic alone (Woods et al. 2003), one with cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy alone (Morrison et al. 2004), and one with both psychotherapy and an antipsychotic (McGorry et al. 2002), and a trial using omega-3 fatty acids (fish oil supplements) (Amminger et al. 2010). Over a 1- to 2-year follow-up period, these interventions demonstrated similar levels of psychotic disorder risk reduction, from about 30% in the control group to about 10% in the intervention group. With treatment discontinuation, benefits were not sustained for antipsychotic and psychotherapy interventions, as a total of about one-third of the individuals developed a psychotic disorder (Morrison et al. 2007; Phillips et al. 2007).

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Examples of psychosis risk syndrome symptoms

Attenuated delusions

A college freshman is noticing “connections” between seemingly unrelated events that have become “too personal to ignore” beginning last semester and now occurring almost daily. A high school student starts to sit in the back of the class because if she sits in the front she has an uncomfortable feeling that other students are watching her. A 16-year-old asks his grandmother if he can leave the store and go wait in the car because he has “a sense” that others are staring and even whispering to each other about him. He knows that this is likely his “imagination,” but he is uncomfortable nonetheless.

Attenuated hallucinations

On a daily basis a 22-year-old cashier sees shadows, movements, and sometimes formed figures (like an animal) out of the corner of his eye, but when he turns to look nothing is there. A 13-year-old hears beeping sounds that can last for minutes, several times a week, and more rarely a momentary (a second or two) faint, unintelligible voice. Several times a week a 15-year-old high school sophomore experiences “voices,” lasting less than a minute, that sound like her, who comment on what she is doing. She isn’t sure if she is really “hearing” the voices as much as experiencing thoughts that seem somehow different from her own thoughts, “because they were saying things” that she was “not conscious of thinking, like talking to myself.”

Attenuated disorganization

A 20-year-old college junior seeks psychiatric treatment because she feels that her “abilities have deteriorated,” especially with difficulty communicating—she rambles, confuses words (i.e., say “done” when meaning to say “down”), has jumbled speech, and often loses track of what she is saying. She exhibits tangential thinking during her evaluation. A formerly high-achieving high school junior is having academic difficulties due to distractibility in class and difficulty following what the teachers are saying. She also has difficulty following conversations with friends and cannot tolerate crowds because “all the noise is confusing.”

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TREATMENT OF THE FIRST EPISODE EMERGENCE OF PSYCHOSIS (FIRST EPISODE) Schizophrenic psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and schizophreniform disorder, usually begin in adolescence or early adulthood. The diagnosis of schizophrenia requires hallucinations, delusions, or disorganization, but it is often the other associated impairments in cognitive function and the severity of negative symptoms that most contribute to social and vocational impairments (Milev et al. 2005). The clinical progression of schizophrenia occurs during the initial decade of illness, followed by relative clinical stability (an der Heiden and Häfner 2000).

THE PROBLEM OF TREATMENT DELAY Considerable delay often occurs between the onset of psychotic symptoms and treatment initiation (i.e., duration of untreated psychosis). In most communities, an average of a year or more elapses from the time psychosis first occurs to first treatment (Perkins et al. 2005). The reasons for treatment delays are not well understood, but lack of recognition of the symptoms of psychosis as a mental illness (rather than “bad behavior”) by the patient, family, and health care providers may be involved (Judge et al. 2008). For several reasons, treatment delay is currently one of the most serious deficiencies in the clinical management of schizophrenia. First, emerging psychosis often derails normal development, and early intervention may minimize functional losses during this crucial time for psychosocial develop-

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ment. Second, psychosis is associated with behavioral disturbances that later may be viewed as embarrassing or that are criminal and have legal consequences. Third, the onset of psychosis is a period when individuals are at increased risk for aggressive behaviors toward others, property, or themselves. Although little systematic study of this issue has been done, it stands to reason that the sooner psychosis is appropriately treated, the lower the risk for psychosis-related aggressive behaviors. Perhaps most important is that duration of untreated psychosis has emerged as an independent predictor of likelihood and extent of recovery from an initial first episode and thus may be a potentially modifiable prognostic factor (Perkins et al. 2005). Clinical progression is associated with neuroprogression, as evidenced by loss of brain tissue, suggesting that biological changes in the brain drive clinical deterioration (Borgwardt et al. 2009).

GENERAL PRINCIPLES The first episode of schizophrenia is usually frightening, and first treatment contact may result from coercion. Initial treatment should not only address psychosis but also minimize subjective distress and focus on establishing a therapeutic alliance. Along with striving for positive symptom improvement or remission, interventions focus on maintaining the patient in treatment and addressing barriers to functional recovery. While most (>80%) first-episode patients can achieve psychotic symptom remission (i.e., no symptoms at a psychotic level intensity), a much lower proportion will have a sustained remission, and even fewer will experience a sustained functional recovery (Derks et al. 2010; Emsley et al. 2007; Henry et al. 2010; Lieberman et al. 2003). Even with good positive symptom response, sustained functional recovery occurs in a minority of patients, with the highest symptomatic and functional recovery rates seen in specialized first-episode treatment programs. The groundbreaking Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre (EPPIC) program in Australia reported that at 7 years of follow-up, about 60% of patients were symptomatically recovered, but only a third had functional recovery, and only about 25% experienced both symptomatic remission and functional recovery (Henry et al. 2010). These figures speak to the responsiveness of first-episode psychosis, but also to the very high risk of relapse, which often derails efforts at functional recovery and may be associated with clinical deterioration mediated by neuroprogression (Lieberman 2007). Relapse risk is very high, even in patients with good symptomatic recovery, but long-term maintenance treatment with antipsychotic drugs reduces the risk of relapse substantially. Without maintenance treatment more than 90%

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ANTIPSYCHOTIC CHOICE AND DOSING All antipsychotics are effective at reducing or eliminating positive symptoms; however, there may be individual differences in both symptomatic response and the experience of side effects. Based on exhaustive reviews of the relevant literature, the Schizophrenia Patient Outcomes Research Team (PORT) concluded that there was no evidence that there are significant differences in short-term efficacy between first- and second-generation antipsychotics for first-episode psychosis and that evidence supporting long-term benefits of the second-generation drugs is inconclusive (Buchanan et al. 2010). A recent meta-analysis also reached the conclusion that there are no differences in efficacy between first- and second-generation drugs but that side-effect profiles of the drugs are distinct (Crossley et al. 2010). Among atypical antipsychotics there are no clear winners (Boter et al. 2009; McEvoy et al. 2007). The dose of antipsychotic needed to achieve positive symptom remission in first-episode patients is typically lower than the dose needed in chronically ill patients, and use of lower doses often minimizes side-effect risk. Consistent with these studies, practice guidelines from the American Psychiatric Association and the Schizophrenia PORT guidelines recommend that patients in a first psychotic episode should be given doses that are about half of the dose used in chronically ill populations (Buchanan et al. 2010; Dixon et al. 2009, 2010; Lehman et al. 2004). Rapid dose escalation increases the risk of poorly tolerated side effects without the likelihood of more rapid or better symptom response. Finally, studies indicate that the initial response to antipsychotic treatment is a good indicator of ultimate response. When a patient does not show improvement in severity of psychosis within the first two weeks of treatment, the likelihood of a good response to that particular antipsychotic is low, and the treating clinician should consider alternative treatment options (Derks et al. 2010).

POSITIVE SYMPTOMS Most patients (>80%) achieve positive symptom remission with antipsychotic treatment (Boter et al. 2009; Emsley et al. 2007; Lieberman et al. 2003). In

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specialized first-episode treatment programs that attempt to provide optimized pharmacological and psychosocial treatment, positive symptom remission in 94% of patients has been reported (Cassidy et al. 2010). Residual positive symptoms are often addressed by sequential trials of different antipsychotics because patients may have profound individual differences in response to any given antipsychotic. Clozapine is indicated in firstepisode patients with significant residual positive symptoms despite trials of two or more antipsychotics (Agid et al. 2007). Nonpharmacological strategies— specifically cognitive-behavioral therapy—have shown efficacy for residual positive symptoms in chronic schizophrenia and may be useful in first-episode schizophrenia (Dixon et al. 2009, 2010).

NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS Negative symptoms significantly impact functional recovery, regardless of the etiology. Thus, patients should be evaluated for the presence of negative symptoms, and when these symptoms are present, the cause should be identified and addressed. Often negative symptoms are secondary to either antipsychotic side effects (e.g., impaired motivation and drive secondary to D 2 blockade; parkinsonian-related akinesia or apathy), depression (e.g., social withdrawal, anhedonia), or the effects of illness on self-esteem (e.g., poor motivation due to concerns about failure). Treatment thus should address the underlying cause. Decreasing the D2 blockade by lowering the dose, choosing an antipsychotic with relatively low risk of parkinsonian side effects, or treating parkinsonian symptoms with anticholinergic medications may reduce or eliminate secondary negative symptoms. Psychotherapies and rehabilitation therapies may address depression and self-esteem. Residual primary negative (i.e., deficit syndrome) symptoms are difficult to treat, with no proven treatments but with preliminary evidence to support the use of glutamatergic drugs (Tuominen et al. 2006) and neurosteroids (Marx et al. 2009). Finally, positive symptoms, including paranoid delusions and disorganization, may also manifest as social withdrawal, and thus some negative symptoms may improve as positive symptoms are successfully treated.

NEUROCOGNITIVE SYMPTOMS AND SOCIAL SKILLS Few treatments are consistently shown to successfully address neurocognitive and social impairments. Antipsychotic drugs have a moderately positive effect on cognition in first-episode schizophrenia, but there is no consistent evidence that any single drug or group of drugs has an advantage over any other (Davidson et al. 2009; Keefe et al. 2007). A promising intervention is cognitive

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MOOD SYMPTOMS Little systematic evidence is available to guide clinicians when confronted with residual mood lability, dysphoria, or anxiety in first-episode patients. While not systematically studied in schizophrenia, benzodiazepines are effective generally in treating anxiety, but risk of abuse may limit use if a substance use disorder is present. In spite of the lack of evidence demonstrating effectiveness, mood stabilizers, including anticonvulsants and lithium, are widely used in treating patients with schizophrenia. Some evidence indicates that they may reduce impulsivity and aggression (Huband et al. 2010). Mood symptoms are common in first-episode patients, especially as psychosis resolves. The sparse available clinical trial data give mixed results for the value of antidepressants in patients with schizophrenia, even those whose symptoms meet full major depression syndrome criteria (Whitehead et al. 2003).

SUICIDE The suicide risk is high in patients with schizophrenia, with about 5%–10% of patients eventually dying by suicide. More than half of these suicides occur within the first 5 years of illness (Verdoux et al. 2001). Although the presence of depression in the presenting psychotic episode or in the postpsychotic period is an important risk factor for suicide, patients with schizophrenia may attempt suicide in the absence of prominent depressive symptoms as a result of hallucinations, paranoia, disorganization, or other symptoms considered more primary to psychosis or other factors. Careful management of the illness as outlined above may reduce likelihood of suicide, as has been found in integrated first-episode treatment programs (Addington et al. 2004).

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SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS Substance use and substance use disorders are common in first-episode patients (Green et al. 2004). Use of certain substances, particularly marijuana and psychostimulants, may be environmental factors that affect vulnerability to psychosis and impair recovery. Illicit substance use is also associated with poor adherence to treatment and thus is associated with increased relapse risk (Conus et al. 2010; Perkins et al. 2008). Thorough evaluation and targeted treatment of substance use is thus a critical component of first-episode treatment. The use of pharmacological strategies is not well researched, and clinicians often turn to strategies proven to be useful in substance-dependent patient populations.

SIDE-EFFECT MONITORING During both the acute phase and the maintenance phase of treatment, close monitoring for medication side effects is necessary, as side effects impact subjective tolerability of medication, adherence, and overall health. Regular monitoring should be done for abnormal involuntary movements and parkinsonian symptoms, sexual side effects, weight gain, metabolic status (e.g., glucose, hemoglobin A1c [HgA1c], cholesterol, triglycerides), and sedation (Buchanan et al. 2010). In first-episode patients, the emphasis is on prevention of adverse effects, especially weight gain. There is evidence that behavioral interventions may be effective, but only while patients are active participants in the program (Alvarez-Jiménez et al. 2008). Numerous clinical trials indicate that metformin (at dosages of 1,000–3,000 mg/day) may be particularly effective in prevention of weight gain and reversing lipid and glucose abnormalities (Bushe et al. 2009). Clinicians should consider early intervention in patients who are experiencing rapid weight gain. Strategies include switching to an antipsychotic with lower risk, and if switching is not a good option, then behavioral interventions should be offered. If weight gain continues, treatment with metformin or other pharmacological interventions (e.g., topiramate) should also be considered (Narula et al. 2010). Prevention of movement disorders is also a priority in first-episode schizophrenia. Parkinsonian side effects should be considered unacceptable given their impact on function and the fact that their presence is a risk factor for future development of tardive dyskinesia. Early detection of tardive dyskinesia, together with early intervention (primarily switching to a medication with reduced risk, such as clozapine), may prevent or minimize the ultimate severity of involuntary movements.

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MAINTENANCE PHASE TREATMENT RELAPSE PREVENTION Positive symptom remission or response is rarely sustained without maintenance antipsychotic treatment. Even a patient with a complete remission has a very high risk of relapse with antipsychotic discontinuation; about 75% experience positive symptom exacerbation within 1 year, and more than 90% relapse within 2 years of antipsychotic discontinuation (Gitlin et al. 2001; Wunderink et al. 2007). Relapse is associated with risk of clinical deterioration and neuroprogression, which limits eventual recovery (Lieberman 2007). Relapse prevention is thus the cornerstone of treatment of the first episode. Relapse risk is greatly diminished by maintenance antipsychotic treatment (Alvarez-Jiménez et al. 2009). With each additional episode of psychosis, some proportion of patients will fail to recover, at least to the same degree as with their first episode. This process of psychotic relapse, treatment failure, and incomplete recovery leads many patients to a chronic course of illness. The deterioration process occurs predominantly in the early phases of the illness, especially during the first 5–10 years after the initial episode. Treatment guidelines for first-episode schizophrenia strongly recommend that clinicians consider long-term maintenance antipsychotic treatment in first-episode patients, even those with complete symptomatic and functional recovery. Long-term adherence may be enhanced with psychotherapies based on motivational interviewing and cognitive-behavioral techniques (Gleeson et al. 2009). These therapies address attitudes and beliefs about illness and the benefits and risks associated with treatment, discover and address barriers to long-term adherence, and develop strategies to aid adherence (e.g., pill boxes, cell phone reminders). Long-acting injectable antipsychotics, individual and family therapeutic interventions, identification and treatment of comorbid substance use disorders, and assertive outreach to engage and maintain the patient in treatment may reduce risk of relapse (Alvarez-Jiménez et al. 2009; Smith et al. 2009).

FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY First-episode patients treated in routine clinical settings typically have a deteriorating illness course despite good initial symptomatic response. For example, in a study of 349 patients followed up to 15 years after first onset of schizophrenia, 17% had no disability at follow-up, whereas 24% still had severe disability, and the remaining 59% had varying degrees of disability (Wiersma et

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al. 1998). Specialized first-episode treatment programs may improve functional outcomes, presumably by specifically addressing residual symptoms, promotion of long-term medication adherence, and provision of interventions targeted to social and vocational rehabilitation (Addington and Addington 2008; Henry et al. 2010; Petersen et al. 2008). Despite current best efforts, functional recovery is achieved by only a minority of patients; thus there is a huge need for research into treatments that foster sustained clinical and functional recovery.

MODEL FIRST-EPISODE PROGRAMS The best psychosocial interventions for first-episode patients remain unknown, although specialized first-episode treatment programs use a combination of strategies to promote symptomatic and functional recovery. In addition to optimal pharmacological therapy, model programs include family, individual, and group therapies. Many programs include an intense treatment model that is a modification of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT). The National Institute of Mental Health is sponsoring the RAISE (Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode) project, which includes a large-scale trial to evaluate the impact of integrated first-episode treatment on symptomatic and functional outcomes in first-episode schizophrenia in the United States (http:// www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/raise/index.shtml).

CONCLUSION Early treatment of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders is likely to minimize risk of the complications of untreated psychosis, including dangerous behaviors and functional impairments. Intervention soon after the onset of illness may increase the likelihood of recovery. Pharmacotherapy should be optimized, and family and individual psychotherapy should be considered to increase the likelihood of functional recovery. Once remission from the first episode is reached, the clinician and patient face the difficult issue of maintenance treatment duration. Despite remission, relapse risk is very high without antipsychotic treatment. Clinically useful predictors of the small minority who maintain remission without pharmacotherapy have not yet been identified, and thus long-term maintenance antipsychotic treatment is recommended. Prevention of recurrent relapse may reduce risk of clinical deterioration. There is movement toward developing specialized programs to treat individuals in the early course of illness. The term critical period refers to the initial few years of illness, when attitudes and beliefs toward illness are de-

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COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT IN SCHIZOPHRENIA COGNITION AS A CORE FEATURE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA Cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia is now viewed as a potential psychopharmacological target for treatment (Hyman and Fenton 2003). Although cognition is not a formal part of the current diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia, DSM-IV-TR (American Psychiatric Association 2000) includes seven references to cognitive dysfunction in the description of the disorder. Diagnostic and scientific experts increasingly have expressed the idea that neurocognitive impairment is a core feature of the illness and not simply the result of the symptoms or the current treatments of schizophrenia. It is likely that the fifth edition of DSM will include cognition as a domain that will need to be evaluated by clinicians in the course of a diagnostic assessment (Barch and Keefe 2010; Keefe and Fenton 2007).

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PROFILE AND MAGNITUDE OF COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT ASSOCIATED W ITH SCHIZOPHRENIA In several cognitive domains, the average cognitive impairment in schizophrenia can reach 2 standard deviations below the healthy control mean (Harvey and Keefe 1997; Heinrichs and Zakzanis 1998; Saykin et al. 1991). Although approximately 27% of patients with schizophrenia (and 85% of the general population) are not rated as “impaired” by clinical neuropsychological assessment (Palmer et al. 1997), these patients tend to have the highest levels of premorbid functioning (Kremen et al. 2000) and demonstrate cognitive functioning that is considerably below what would be expected of them based on their premorbid levels and the education level of their parents. Up to 98% of patients with schizophrenia perform more poorly on cognitive tests than would be predicted by their parents’ education level (Keefe et al. 2005). In addition, comparisons of monozygotic twins discordant for schizophrenia suggest that almost all affected twins perform worse than their unaffected twin on cognitive tests (Goldberg et al. 1990). Therefore, it is likely that almost all patients with schizophrenia are functioning below the level that would be expected in the absence of the illness. Neurocognitive tests often assess more than one domain of functioning, and many tests do not fit neatly into a single domain. Thus, descriptions of the profile of cognitive deficits in schizophrenia have varied across literature reviews. The opinion of a group of experts who served on the Neurocognition Subcommittee of the Measurement and Treatment Research to Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia (MATRICS) project (www.matrics.ucla.edu) is that the most important domains of cognitive deficit in schizophrenia are working memory, vigilance and attention, verbal learning and memory, visual learning and memory, reasoning and problem solving, speed of processing, and social cognition (Nuechterlein et al. 2004). The most striking aspect of the profile of cognitive deficits in patients with schizophrenia is that so few cognitive functions remain similar to those in healthy control subjects (Harvey and Keefe 1997; Saykin et al. 1994). A review and meta-analysis of 204 studies shows a consistent and stable difference between patients with schizophrenia (n=7,420) and healthy control subjects (n=5,865) in a wide range of domains of cognitive functioning (Heinrichs and Zakzanis 1998). Examples of tests that measure the most important components of cognitive impairment in schizophrenia are reviewed briefly here.

Working Memory Working memory is a core component of the cognitive impairment in schizophrenia (Goldman-Rakic 1994; Keefe 2001; Silver et al. 2003) and is related

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to functional outcomes such as employment status (McGurk and Meltzer 2000) and job tenure (Gold et al. 2002). Much of the clinical relevance of working memory deficits in schizophrenia comes from the strong correlations that working memory measures have with a variety of other cognitive domains impaired in schizophrenia, such as attention, planning, memory (reviewed in Keefe 2001), and intelligence (Baddeley 1992). Also, advanced understanding of the neuroanatomy of working memory functions in human and nonhuman primates suggests that neural circuitry that includes prefrontal cortical regions mediates aspects of working memory functions (Callicott et al. 1999; Goldman-Rakic 1987) and that this circuitry may be impaired in schizophrenia (Callicott et al. 1999).

Vigilance and Attention Vigilance refers to the ability to maintain attention over time. Impairments in vigilance can result in difficulty following social conversations and an inability to follow important instructions; simple activities such as reading or watching television become labored or impossible. Vigilance deficits in patients with schizophrenia are related to various aspects of outcome, including social deficits, community functioning, and skills acquisition (Green 1996; Green et al. 2000).

Verbal Learning and Memory The abilities involved in memory functioning include learning new information, retaining newly learned information over time, and recognizing previously presented material. In general, patients show larger deficits in learning than in retention. The tests used to measure learning typically involve the ability to learn lists of words or written passages. Much empirical evidence points to the connection between verbal memory impairment and social deficits in patients with schizophrenia (Green 1996).

Visual Learning and Memory Because visual information is not as easily expressed as verbal information, fewer tests sensitive to the deficits of schizophrenia have been developed, and this area of cognitive function has generally been found not to be as impaired as verbal memory (Heinrichs and Zaksanis 1998). Visual memory has been found to correlate modestly with employment status (Gold et al. 2003), job tenure (Gold et al. 2002), psychosocial rehabilitation success (Mueser et al. 1991), social functioning (Dickerson et al. 1999), quality of life ratings (Buchanan et al. 1994), and strongly with func-

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Reasoning and Problem Solving Although there are many tests of reasoning and problem solving, the most well known and most frequently used in schizophrenia research is the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST; Heaton 1981). The very poor performance of patients with schizophrenia on the WCST (Goldberg et al. 1987) and the reduced activity of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during performance of this test (Weinberger 1987) led to widespread pursuit of the hypothesis of frontal hypoactivation in schizophrenia. It is important to note, however, that the WCST measures a variety of cognitive functions and is not a pure measure of executive functions (Keefe 1995). The rules of society and the workplace change regularly, and success in these arenas is often measured by one’s ability to adapt to changes. Patients with schizophrenia who are impaired on measures of executive functions have difficulty adapting to the rapidly changing world around them.

Speed of Processing Many neurocognitive tests require subjects to process information rapidly and can be compromised by impairments in processing speed. A standard example of this type of task is the Digit Symbol Test of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (Wechsler 1997). This nonspecific cognitive impairment has been found to correlate with a variety of clinically important features of schizophrenia, such as daily life activities (Evans et al. 2003), job tenure (Gold et al. 2002), and independent living status (Brekke et al. 1997). Reduced processing speed can impair ability to keep in step with the taskoriented jobs that are frequently held by patients with schizophrenia. Increased response latency in social settings may hamper social relationships.

Social Cognition Theory-of-mind skills and social perception have been the general focus of the literature on social cognition in schizophrenia. Theory of mind is the ability to infer another’s intentions and/or to represent the mental states of others. Individuals with schizophrenia perform poorly on measures of theory-ofmind abilities (Corcoran et al. 1995; Drury et al. 1998; Sarfati et al. 1997). Facial affect recognition and social cue perception are the two general areas into which studies of social perception in schizophrenia can be broken down.

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Reviews of the literature on facial affect recognition (Morrison et al. 1988; Penn et al. 1997) suggest that individuals with schizophrenia have stable deficits on tests of facial affect perception and that perception of negative emotions and fear may be particularly impaired (Addington and Addington 1998; Edwards et al. 2001; Gaebel and Wolwer 1992). Tests of social cue perception use more dynamic stimuli that require multiple sensory modalities, such as watching videotapes of persons interacting. Patients with schizophrenia show consistent impairments on these tasks (Bell et al. 1997; Corrigan et al. 1990). Social cognition is related to social impairments in schizophrenia, even after controlling for performance on neurocognitive tasks (Penn et al. 1996; Trumbetta and Mueser 2001).

SUMMARY Experts in cognition and schizophrenia have come to a clear consensus that cognitive impairment is a core feature of the illness. The profile of deficits is broad and severe and is likely present in most, if not all, patients. Neurocognitive impairment has clear clinical relevance because cognitive impairment interferes with the everyday lives of patients in various important ways, from limiting social relationships to reducing the likelihood of employment.

NATURAL HISTORY OF NEUROCOGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT The time course of the development of cognitive deficits in schizophrenia patients appears to follow a predictable pattern. Some deficits may be present in childhood, followed by a decline in cognitive function before the first episode. The severity of neurocognitive impairments increases once psychosis develops. The long-term stability of neurocognitive impairment over time is not clear, but evidence for progression in nonelderly patients is lacking.

DEFICITS IN CHILDREN AT RISK FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA Individuals who are genetically vulnerable to schizophrenia have notable cognitive impairments (Cornblatt and Keilp 1994), whereas individuals who are examined with cognitive assessments before they develop schizophrenia are found to have impairments in a variety of areas (Davidson et al. 1999). Highrisk studies of children with one or two biological parents with schizophrenia (Cornblatt et al. 1999) have suggested that attention deficits can predict which children will develop schizophrenia in the future.

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Follow-Back Studies In separate studies completed in the United Kingdom (Jones et al. 1994) and Sweden (David et al. 1997), children who went on to develop schizophrenia as adults differed significantly from the general population in a wide range of cognitive and behavioral domains. Similar findings were generated from a population-based study that investigated the risk of schizophrenia in the United States. Iowa Test scores from grades 4, 8, and 11 for 70 children who later developed schizophrenia were compared with those of children who did not develop schizophrenia. A significant drop in test scores was found between grades 8 and 11, corresponding with the onset of puberty (Fuller et al. 2002). In Israel, a study of all adolescents ages 16–17 years suggested that cognitive functions are significantly impaired in those adolescents who are later hospitalized for schizophrenia. These cognitive deficits thus precede the onset of psychosis and, along with social isolation and impaired organizational ability, are a significant predictor of which young people will eventually develop a psychotic disorder (Davidson et al. 1999). In the young people who later experienced a first episode of schizophrenia, most of their cognitive impairments occurred prior to the first psychotic episode (Caspi et al. 2003).

Prodrome Studies Cognitive deficits are also found in individuals who are identified as being at “ultra-high” risk (Yung and McGorry 1996) for schizophrenia by virtue of their family history of schizophrenia and/or the manifestation of mild signs and symptoms consistent with the prodromal symptoms of schizophrenia (Brewer et al. 2003; Hawkins et al. 2004). Preliminary data also suggest that olfactory identification deficits predict which individuals at ultra-high risk will develop schizophrenia (Brewer et al. 2003).

FIRST-EPISODE PSYCHOSIS STUDIES Once psychosis develops, cognitive deficits are severe (Bilder et al. 2000; DeLisi et al. 1995; Hoff et al. 1999; Mohamed et al. 1999; Stirling et al. 2003). Patients with a first episode of schizophrenia who have never taken antipsychotic medication already exhibit cognitive impairment (Brickman et al. 2004; Mohamed et al. 1999; Saykin et al. 1994).

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COGNITIVE CHANGES IN PATIENTS RECOVERING FROM ACUTE EXACERBATION Patients recovering from an acute exacerbation of illness do not appear to demonstrate substantial changes in the severity of their cognitive impairment despite clear improvements in symptoms with treatment (Gold 1999; Hughes et al. 2003; Nopoulos et al. 1994; Sweeney et al. 1991).

LONGITUDINAL CHANGE IN COGNITIVE FUNCTION The notion of neurodegeneration in schizophrenia has been controversial. Evidence has been presented suggesting that schizophrenia is a neurodegenerative process, and some have concluded that schizophrenia is progressive (Lieberman 1999). However, with a few notable exceptions (Bilder et al. 1992; Davidson et al. 1995; O’Donnell et al. 1995), cross-sectional studies generally have not found evidence of increased cognitive impairment in association with duration of illness, and older nonelderly patients do not manifest greater impairment than younger patients (Goldberg et al. 1993; Heaton and Drexler 1987; Hyde et al. 1994; Eyler Zorrilla et al. 2000). Definitive answers to questions regarding possible progression of cognitive impairment in schizophrenia must come from longitudinal studies, and few have been completed. One longitudinal study traced 111 first-episode schizophrenia patients over 10–12 years and found that visuospatial function, although spared in the first episode, may deteriorate over time, whereas executive deficits do not (Stirling et al. 2003). Other longitudinal studies of neurocognitive impairment suggest that it is a stable, enduring feature of the illness, with very little change in patients with chronic schizophrenia between assessment periods of up to 5 years (Heaton et al. 2001; Rund 1998).

SUMMARY Neurocognitive impairment is present in a mild form before the onset of psychosis in young people destined to develop schizophrenia. Neurocognitive impairment is severe in patients who have experienced their first psychotic episode, even before antipsychotic treatment is initiated. Although some early-phase patients may demonstrate a slight improvement in neurocognitive impairment with treatment, many patients do not improve at all. Following this early phase, neurocognitive impairment appears to be remarkably consistent, even in the presence of symptom change, although few longitudinal studies have had follow-up periods of longer than 5 years.

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RELATION OF NEUROCOGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT TO SCHIZOPHRENIA SYMPTOMS If neurocognitive deficits were the result of the symptoms of the illness, then the deficits would disappear when the symptoms do. However, this is usually not the case in patients with schizophrenia. Unlike patients with psychotic bipolar illness, whose performance on cognitive tests may improve when their psychotic symptoms remit, patients with schizophrenia do not show any change in performance when psychosis remits (Harvey et al. 1990). The impact of antipsychotics on cognition is weak (Blyler and Gold 2000; Davidson et al. 2009; Keefe et al. 2007). The recalcitrance of neurocognitive impairment in the context of substantial symptom improvement is one of the most compelling lines of evidence of the independence of these symptom domains.

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES OF THE RELATION TO SYMPTOMS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA Positive Symptoms Neurocognitive ability is not strongly correlated with severity of psychotic symptoms in patients with schizophrenia (Addington et al. 1991; Bilder et al. 1985; Strauss 1993). Although some exceptions exist, such as isolated reports of significant correlations of positive symptoms with working memory (Bressi et al. 1996; Carter et al. 1996), source monitoring (Keefe et al. 2002), and auditory distractibility (Walker and Lewine 1988), the overall trend is for general neurocognitive impairment not to be correlated with positive symptoms. This low correlation across various patient samples, including first-episode (Mohamed et al. 1999), chronic (Addington et al. 1991; Tamlyn et al. 1992), and elderly (Davidson et al. 1995) patients, confirmed in 1,331 patients assessed at entrance into the CATIE schizophrenia trial (Keefe et al. 2006), suggests that positive symptoms are clearly not the sole cause of the cognitive impairment found in patients with schizophrenia.

Negative Symptoms Cognitive dysfunction is significantly correlated with various types of negative symptoms (Addington et al. 1991; Cuesta et al. 1995; Morris et al. 1995; Strauss 1993; Summerfelt et al. 1991; Tamlyn et al. 1992). The greater variance shared between neurocognition and negative symptoms may result from measurement overlap. For instance, the neurocognitive variable verbal flu-

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ency and the negative symptom variable poverty of speech both measure the speed at which a patient generates speech. A patient who generates speech at a slow rate will do so during a test of verbal fluency as well as in an interview during which he or she is being rated for poverty of speech. Whether the negative symptom of reduced motivation underlies the poor performance of patients with schizophrenia on cognitive tests is controversial. Increases in pupil size are associated with increased cognitive processing demands (Granholm et al. 1996). Therefore, pupillary response can measure engagement in a task. If the cognitive deficits of patients with schizophrenia were caused by lack of interest or motivation, their pupillary response would be low throughout the period of cognitive assessment. Only during highprocessing conditions do patients have abnormal pupillary responses, suggesting they put forth a normal amount of effort when being given cognitive tests, yet their decreased processing capacity leads them to be unable to engage in difficult tasks (Granholm et al. 1997). On the contrary, cognitive deficits may cause reduced motivation. Individuals with cognitive deficits are less likely to be motivated to have goals and pursue them (reviewed by Deci and Flaste 1996). Patients with neurocognitive impairment are likely to be met with failure if they attempt to pursue employment, social, and even recreational avenues that require cognitive skill. Repeated failures are likely to cause discouragement and reduced motivation in people with schizophrenia.

Formal Thought Disorder Deficits in semantic memory may lie at the heart of the cognition–thought disorder relation (Elvevag et al. 2002). Empirical data suggest that the difference between semantic fluency and phonological fluency, an indication of the severity of the impairment of the “semantic network” in patients with schizophrenia, predicts the severity of their formal thought disorder (Goldberg et al. 1998). Thus, a patient’s ability to have verbal information available (referred to as “semantic priming”) may be the most important cognitive factor in formal thought disorder.

Affective Symptoms The distinction between depressive symptoms and negative symptoms is sometimes difficult for raters and clinicians to make (Goldman et al. 1992; McKenna et al. 1989), yet factor analyses suggest that they are separate dimensions of schizophrenia (Lindenmayer et al. 1995; Willem Van der Does et al. 1995). Higher depression scores were significantly correlated with worse verbal memory task performance, which remained even after controlling for

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LONGITUDINAL STUDIES The relative independence of neurocognitive impairment and symptoms in cross-sectional studies appears to be supported by longitudinal studies. When patients with schizophrenia are successfully treated with antipsychotics, the severity of their symptoms is substantially reduced (Kahn et al. 2008; Lieberman et al. 2003), yet antipsychotic treatment has only modest effects on cognition (Bilder et al. 2000; Davidson et al. 2009; Keefe et al. 2007). The stability of neurocognitive impairment occurs in the context of frequent variability of the symptoms of schizophrenia, especially the positive symptoms (Bilder et al. 2000; Harvey et al. 1996; Nopoulos et al. 1994). Studies that have calculated the correlation between change in neurocognitive impairment and symptom change have generally suggested that symptom change does not contribute substantially to cognitive change (Addington et al. 1991; Hoff et al. 1999).

IMPACT OF TREATMENT ON COGNITION Despite the centrality of cognition in schizophrenia, there are no proven pharmacological treatments for neurocognitive impairments currently available, and antipsychotics have minimal impact (Davidson et al. 2009; Keefe et al. 2007). Driven by the NIMH Measurement and Treatment Research to Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia (MATRICS) initiative, a pathway for FDA approval of compounds to improve cognition has been established. Included in the approved battery of tests is the MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB), which includes 10 tests in the seven cognitive domains that were determined by the MATRICS Neurocognition Committee to be the most relevant cognitive treatment targets in schizophrenia (Nuechterlein et al. 2008).

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SUMMARY The literature on neurocognitive impairment demonstrates consistently that cognitive impairment is not caused by the symptoms of schizophrenia. Whereas other aspects of schizophrenia, such as negative symptoms, appear to correlate with neurocognitive impairment, there is as much or more evidence supporting the idea that neurocognitive impairment causes negative symptoms as there is evidence that negative symptoms cause neurocognitive impairment. Although there is limited evidence of a relationship between changes in neurocognitive impairment and changes in symptoms over time, there is no clear evidence that improvements in neurocognitive impairment are caused by improvements in symptoms. In fact, most data point to the relative independence of these two targets of treatment in schizophrenia.

CLINICAL IMPORTANCE OF NEUROCOGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT CROSS-SECTIONAL CORRELATIONS WITH FUNCTION Relation of Neurocognitive Impairment to Functioning Cognition has been firmly established as a predictor of real-world community functioning and laboratory measures of functional capacity (Green 1996; Patterson et al. 2001). In a 1-year follow-up study of patients with first-episode psychosis, the size of the correlations between the number and quality of actual social relations and various cognitive measures were found to be in the 0.25–0.35 range (Malla et al. 2002). All of the key neurocognitive constructs have demonstrated significant relationships to functional outcome and effect sizes in the medium range (Green et al. 2000; Nuechterlein et al. 2004). Cognitive impairments are also correlated with deficits in the performance of specific skills critical for independent living (Evans et al. 2003; Patterson et al. 2001).

Unemployment Ratings of work behavior/performance are related to baseline scores on cognitive tests in schizophrenia, and improvement in patient work performance in a 6-month work rehabilitation program was predicted by baseline performance on various cognitive tests (Bell and Bryson 2001; Lysaker and Bell 1995). Patients enrolled in school full-time or holding competitive employment show superior performance across measures of working memory, sus-

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ESSENTIALS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA tained attention, problem solving, and episodic memory when compared with unemployed patients (McGurk and Meltzer 2000; McGurk et al. 2003). Neurocognitive performance plays a more important role than clinical symptoms in the ability of patients with schizophrenia to work (McGurk et al. 2003).

Quality of Life Reductions in quality of life are more strongly associated with cognitive deficits than other symptomatic features of the illness. Specifically, the relationship between subjective experience and social functioning has been shown to be mediated by executive functioning (Brekke et al. 2001). Fujii and Wylie (2003) studied the long-term effects of neurocognition on quality of life in patients with severe schizophrenia. They found that neurocognition does, in fact, have long-term predictive validity for quality of life and that therapeutics targeting neurocognition could improve quality of life in this population.

Relapse Prevention Cognitive functions have been shown to be a strong predictor of patients’ ability to manage medications (Jeste et al. 2003). Cognitive deficits contribute to patterns of medication mismanagement that are associated with poor adherence and risk of relapse (Fenton et al. 1997; Jarboe and Schwartz 1999). In one study, memory impairment was the best predictor of partial compliance (Donohoe et al. 2001). Patients performing poorly in medication management tests also had poor global scores on a dementia inventory (Patterson et al. 2002).

Medical Comorbidity Neurocognitive impairment is also related to medical comorbidities in schizophrenia. Deficits in organization (executive skills) directly affect patients’ ability to seek treatment for medical problems. In elderly patients with schizophrenia, cognitive and functional impairments predicted the later incidence of new-onset medical problems, whereas medical problems did not predict the subsequent worsening of cognitive and self-care deficits (Friedman et al. 2002). Inability of patients with schizophrenia to reduce damaging habits such as smoking has been correlated with deficits in memory and attention (Buchanan et al. 1994; George et al. 2000). Thus, cognitive impairments were shown directly to effect new-onset medical problems in older patients.

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Costs Cognitive impairment is also a major factor in the costs (direct and indirect) associated with schizophrenia (Sevy and Davidson 1995). Factors leading to the increased cost include loss of ability for self-care, level of inpatient and outpatient care needed, and loss of productivity (for both patient and caretaker).

CONCLUSION A consensus has developed that cognitive impairment is a core feature of schizophrenia. The course of neurocognitive impairment follows a characteristic pattern and following the early phase is consistent even when positive and negative symptoms change. Consistent with the demonstration that cognitive impairments are not merely secondary to positive symptoms of schizophrenia, these two targets for treatment are largely independent. Functional status years later can be predicted with considerable accuracy from the extent of neurocognitive impairments. The relationship has been established between cognition and many other facets of schizophrenia, from social functioning to unemployment to relapse prevention. Current pharmacological treatment has little impact on cognitive function. Multiple efforts are under way to identify behavioral and pharmacological treatments that could improve cognition and the functional outcomes that it mediates.

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SOCIAL FUNCTIONING Problems with social relationships and role functioning, such as going to school or working, typically precede the onset of schizophrenia and continue throughout much of an affected person’s life. In addition to psychotic symp-

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ONSET AND COURSE OF PSYCHOSOCIAL IMPAIRMENTS Problems in social functioning in schizophrenia typically antedate the onset of prominent symptoms by many years. Although some people with schizophrenia have few social problems during childhood and adolescence before developing the early signs of schizophrenia, many others show one of two patterns of maladjustment (Baum and Walker 1995; Hans et al. 1992). First, some individuals are shyer, are awkward when interacting with peers, have fewer friends, and are generally more anxious and withdrawn than others around them (Zigler and Glick 1986). These individuals may seem peculiar to others or are viewed as loners with reduced social drive. Their onset of schizophrenia is often very gradual, and the social impairments related to the illness appear to be mainly an exaggeration of problems in their premorbid social functioning. Second, some individuals have impulse-control problems during childhood and adolescence with behavior marked by poor attention during school, fights, disregard for authority, and other problems commonly found in conduct disorder (Cannon et al. 1993; Robins 1966; Rutter 1997). These individuals’ social problems stem more from their failure to recognize the rights and feelings of others than from their lack of understanding of basic social norms. Although extensive research has documented problems in social functioning before the onset of schizophrenia, mounting evidence indicates that at least some of the pervasive social impairments observed in people who later develop schizophrenia may actually be early signs of the illness. Work by Häfner and his colleagues (Häfner 2000; Häfner et al. 2003) indicates that the first signs of schizophrenia include depression and mild negative symptoms, followed by cognitive impairment and difficulties in role functioning. Problems in these areas usually appear several years before the emergence of psychotic symptoms. In addition to reporting that the first signs of schizophrenia include both mood and social problems that precede the onset of psychotic symptoms by several years, Häfner and colleagues (1993, 1999) found that the age at which these difficulties first emerge is related to the person’s subsequent social functioning over the course of the illness. Specifically, the older an individual is when he or she develops the first signs and symptoms of schizophrenia,

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the more social roles that person has been able to fulfill and the better his or her social functioning will be over the course of the illness. The later age at onset of schizophrenia for women than for men accounts for women’s better social functioning (Haas and Garratt 1998) and somewhat milder course of illness (Angermeyer et al. 1990), according to Häfner et al. (1993). Over the long-term course of schizophrenia, psychosocial impairments tend to be relatively stable in the absence of concerted rehabilitation efforts. The consensus from long-term follow-up studies is that a significant proportion of patients has partial or full symptom remissions and improvements in social functioning (Häfner and an der Heiden 2003; Harding and Keller 1998). While some improvement is common, the extent of such gains has been the topic of much debate.

SOCIAL SKILLS AND SOCIAL FUNCTIONING For many years, interventions for schizophrenia focused narrowly on relapse prevention and symptoms. However, the discovery of antipsychotic medications, followed by deinstitutionalization and the growth of community-based treatment, has shifted attention to helping patients with schizophrenia function competently in society. Improvement in the breadth of domains of functioning that most would consider integral to a successful life—work, intimacy, friendships, family, and avocations—is a major treatment priority. Psychiatric rehabilitation is a relatively new field that reflects this broader conceptualization of outcome (Corrigan et al. 2008). In this chapter, the term social functioning refers to domains of behavior that involve interactions with others, including social relationships. Social functioning in schizophrenia has been operationalized at both the microcomponent and macrocomponent level. Many of the microcomponents of social functioning are subsumed under the rubric of social skills. These typically include the verbal, paralinguistic, and nonverbal components of interpersonal interactions, such as eye contact, facial expressions, and latency of speech utterances (Bellack et al. 2004). A related variable involves social cognition, a construct discussed in detail later in this chapter. Many of the core symptoms of schizophrenia, especially those pertaining to cognitive deficits and negative symptoms, are reflected in the poor social skills often shown by persons with the disorder. At a more macro level, social functioning can be seen as analogous to social adjustment. Here, the primary issue is role functioning in domains such as work, school, and parenting. For adults, successful role functioning typically includes living independently, being financially self-sufficient through employment, having a strong social network of family and friends, and hav-

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Social Skills Poor social skills have been understood as a core characteristic of schizophrenia from its first conceptualization as a disorder (Kraepelin 1919/1971). Among persons with schizophrenia, women tend to have better social skills (Mueser et al. 1990; Usall et al. 2002), as do those with less impaired cognitive functioning (Mueser et al. 2010) and less severe negative symptoms (Jackson et al. 1989; Patterson et al. 2001). Social skills are strongly related to the quality of social functioning and capacity for independent living (Bellack et al. 1990; Penn et al. 1995). When an individual is acutely psychotic, antipsychotic medications can lead to more appropriate social behavior, through both reducing the individual’s attention to internal stimuli such as hallucinations and reducing the impact of delusions on what the person says and does. However, in the absence of an acute exacerbation of psychotic symptoms or concerted rehabilitation efforts, social skills tend to be quite stable over time in people with schizophrenia (Mueser et al. 1991). Social skills training programs are the most common psychosocial interventions for schizophrenia. These programs involve the use of cognitivebehavioral techniques grounded in learning theory (e.g., coaching, prompting, modeling, chaining, positive reinforcement) to improve specific components of social skills (Bellack et al. 2004; Liberman et al. 1989). The generalization of social skills from training sessions to the natural environment is built into the program through strategies such as home practice assignments, in vivo trips to use skills in the community (Glynn et al. 2002), and involvement of natural supports such as family and friends to prompt skills as needed (Tauber et al. 2000). Sessions can be run individually or in a group and typically are offered in a time-limited fashion. Typical therapeutic goals might include improving conversational skills, making friends, resolving conflict, and enhancing community living skills (e.g., use of transportation, budgeting). Immediate outcome is usually assessed through role-plays or performance on mastery tests of the curriculum taught, while the primary longer-term goals are usually improving quality of relationships, role functioning, and independent living. The steps of social skills training are summarized in Table 5–1. Recently, two meta-analyses of controlled research on social skills training have been published with remarkably similar conclusions regarding its effects (Kurtz and Mueser 2008; Pfammatter et al. 2006). Kurtz and Mueser (2008) hypothesized that the impact of social skills training would be strongest on outcomes that were most “proximal” or immediate to the training methods used, such as mastery tests of skills training content and perfor-

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mance of role-play tests of social skill; moderate on outcomes related to social skill, such as social functioning and negative symptoms; and weakest on outcomes more distally related to skills training, such as other symptoms and relapses. Their hypotheses were largely supported, with significant effects found on all of the domains listed above. Of greatest significance, social skills training had a significant effect on improving social and community functioning, underscoring the importance of this method of psychiatric rehabilitation for persons with schizophrenia.

Other Approaches to Improving Social Functioning In addition to social skills training, a variety of other interventions are used to improve social functioning in schizophrenia. Similar to its effects on social skills, antipsychotic medications do not have a major impact on improving social functioning, except to the extent of reducing or eliminating psychotic symptoms that can have a deleterious effect on social and community adjustment. Therefore, the most effective treatments for improving social functioning tend to be psychosocial in nature. Cognitive-behavioral therapy for psychosis is a psychotherapeutic approach to schizophrenia that involves systematically teaching individuals how to examine, challenge, and (when inaccurate) change the thoughts, attributions, and beliefs underlying upsetting psychotic symptoms, poor self-esteem, and perceptions of interference with attaining functional goals (Beck et al. 2009; Fowler et al. 1995; Kingdon and Turkington 2004; Morrison et al. 2004). Cognitive-behavioral approaches also often teach coping skills for dealing with persistent psychotic symptoms. Although cognitive-behavioral therapy has been combined with social skills training (Granholm et al. 2005), usually they are provided as separate interventions. The results of the most recent comprehensive meta-analysis provide support for the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy for schizophrenia (Wykes et al. 2008); not only was the intervention found to significantly reduce the severity of psychotic and negative symptoms, but it was also found to improve social functioning. Cognitive functioning is often impaired in schizophrenia (Heaton et al. 1994) and is strongly related to psychosocial functioning (Green et al. 2000). Therefore, cognitive remediation aims at improving cognitive functioning in areas such as attention, psychomotor speed, memory, and executive functions with the intention of improving social and role functioning. A wide range of cognitive training methods have been developed that often employ computerbased cognitive exercises, and may also involve individual or group-based practice of cognitive skills. Some of these programs are integrated or combined with other psychiatric rehabilitation methods, such as social skills or social cognition training (Hogarty et al. 2004; Roder et al. 2002; Silverstein et

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1. Establish rationale for the skill. • Elicit reasons for learning the skill from group participants. • Acknowledge all contributions. • Provide additional reasons not mentioned by group members. 2. Discuss the steps of the skill. • Break down the skill into three or four steps. • Write the steps on a board or poster. • Discuss the reason for each step. • Check for understanding of each step. 3. Model the skill in a role-play. • Explain that you will demonstrate the skill in a role-play. • Plan out the role-play. • Use two leaders to model the skill. • Keep the role-play simple. 4. Review the role-play with the participants. • Discuss whether each step of the skill was used in the role-play. • Ask group members to evaluate the effectiveness of the role model. • Keep the review brief and to the point. 5. Engage a patient in a role-play of the same situation. • Request the patient to try the skill in a role-play with one of the leaders. • Ask the patient questions to make sure he or she understands their goal. • Instruct members to observe the patient. • Start with a patient who is more skilled or is likely to be compliant. 6. Provide positive feedback. • Elicit positive feedback from group members about the patient’s skills. • Encourage feedback that is specific. • Cut off any negative feedback. • Praise effort and provide hints to group members about good performance.

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7. Provide corrective feedback. • Elicit suggestions for how patient could do the skill better next time. • Limit the feedback to one or two suggestions. • Strive to communicate the suggestions in a positive, upbeat manner. 8. Engage the patient in another role-play of the same situation. • Request that the patient change one behavior in the role-play. • Check by asking questions to make sure the patient understands the suggestion. • Try to work on behaviors that are salient and changeable. 9. Provide additional feedback. • Focus first on the behavior that the patient was requested to change. • Engage patient in two to four role-plays with feedback after each one. • Use other behavior-shaping strategies to improve skills, such as coaching, prompting, supplemental modeling. • Be generous but specific when providing positive feedback. 10. Assign homework. • Give an assignment to practice the skill. • Ask group members to identify situations in which they could use the skill. • When possible, tailor the assignment to each patient’s level of skill. al. 2005). A recent meta-analysis of controlled trials of cognitive remediation for schizophrenia finds significant benefits on both cognitive functioning and psychosocial adjustment (McGurk et al. 2007b). Interestingly, although programs that provide another type of psychiatric rehabilitation in addition to cognitive remediation did not have stronger effects on cognitive functioning, the combination of both types of treatment is significantly more effective at improving psychosocial functioning than cognitive remediation alone. Several other interventions may also improve social functioning in schizophrenia, with research providing less definitive support at this time. First, developing illness self-management skills (Mueser et al. 2002), such as developing a relapse prevention plan, managing stress, strategies to enhance medication adherence, and coping strategies for symptoms, may improve social functioning by reducing the interfering effects of symptoms and relapses on relationships and independent living (Hogarty et al. 1997a, 1997b; Levitt et al. 2009). Second, family psychoeducation that involves forming a partnership between

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ESSENTIALS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA the treatment team and the family (including the patient), teaching them about schizophrenia and its treatment, developing relapse prevention strategies, and reducing stress through more effective communication and problem solving strategies (Dixon et al. 2010) can improve social functioning by reducing relapses and fostering family support for the patient’s goals (Barrowclough and Tarrier 1998). Third, environmental-based interventions may be useful in facilitating more independent living for patients with severe psychosocial impairments. For example, Velligan et al. (2000) find that implementing a set of compensatory strategies (e.g., color coding, checklists, audible prompts) tailored to the participants’ impediments in motivation, impulse control, and executive functioning lead to significant improvements in functioning.

VOCATIONAL FUNCTIONING Poor occupational functioning is common in patients with schizophrenia, with competitive employment rates typically in the range of 10%–20% (Brekke et al. 1993; Marwaha and Johnson 2004; Mueser et al. 2001). Long-term outcome studies report occupational decline from premorbid levels in a significant proportion of persons with schizophrenia (Johnstone et al. 1990; Marneros et al. 1992). Moreover, this decline is evident as early as 6–18 months after the first episode (Beiser et al. 1994; Ho et al. 1998). The high rate of unemployment among persons with schizophrenia has important implications for the effect of the disorder on the individual, the family, and society. From an individual perspective, high costs are associated with unemployment in schizophrenia, such as living in poverty with an increased vulnerability to victimization (Goodman et al. 2001; Walsh et al. 2003). People with schizophrenia who are working tend to function better across a range of different domains, and the attainment of work in previously unemployed persons is associated with increases in self-esteem, decreases in depression and psychotic symptoms, improved satisfaction with finances, and better overall functioning (Arns and Linney 1993; Bond et al. 2001; Mueser et al. 1997), supporting the old adage that “work is good therapy” (Harding et al. 1987). Low employment rates in schizophrenia also naturally lead to an increased dependence on the family for housing support and getting basic needs met, contributing to significant objective and subjective burden on relatives (Baronet 1999; Dyck et al. 1999). In addition, unemployment, resulting in lost productivity and the need for supplemental income, is a primary source of the high cost of schizophrenia, estimated to exceed $6 billion per year (Rice 1999). Indeed, the loss

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of productivity over most of the adult lifetime is a major reason that the combined economic and social costs of schizophrenia place it among the world’s top 10 causes of disability-adjusted life-years (Murray and Lopez 1996). Finally, work is a critical component of how people in Western society define themselves, and the inability to work sets patients with schizophrenia apart from others and further contributes to their social marginalization (Crisp et al. 2000). Unfortunately, the stigma associated with schizophrenia may impede the ability of people with the illness to obtain jobs because of discrimination, which increases their stigmatization even more (Farina 1998; Wahl 1999). Increasing employment rates may decrease both stigmatizing public attitudes toward schizophrenia and self-stigmatizing beliefs among persons with the illness (Wahl 1997).

CORRELATES AND PREDICTORS OF WORK A variety of sociodemographic, historical, and clinical correlates of work have been identified in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is associated with a curtailed level of education (Kessler et al. 1995), and as in the general population, level of education is related to work in schizophrenia (Mueser et al. 2001). Some research suggests that social skills are related to work performance in persons with schizophrenia (Arns and Linney 1995; Bellack et al. 1990). However, an even greater wealth of evidence points to the importance of symptoms and cognitive functioning as contributing factors to impaired vocational functioning in schizophrenia. The severity of both psychotic and negative symptoms is correlated with, and predictive of, work in persons with schizophrenia (Glynn et al. 1992; McGurk and Mueser 2004; Racenstein et al. 2002). Impaired cognitive functioning is the clinical feature of schizophrenia that is most strongly related to work (McGurk and Meltzer 2000), with multiple studies demonstrating the association. A review of correlates and predictors of work in schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses concluded that although symptoms and cognitive functioning predict work in schizophrenia, the associations tend to be stronger in patients not receiving employment services than among patients receiving such services (McGurk and Mueser 2004). A possible implication of these findings is that vocational rehabilitation may serve to compensate for the effects of illness-related impairments, both symptom and cognitive, on work. Furthermore, there is some evidence from controlled trials that cognitive remediation may accentuate the effects of vocational rehabilitation programs on work outcomes (Bell et al. 2005, 2007; Lindenmayer et al. 2008; McGurk et al. 2005, 2007a, 2009; Vauth et al. 2005).

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VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION The high rates of unemployment in patients with schizophrenia underscore the importance of improving employment outcomes in these individuals. Furthermore, most persons with schizophrenia express a desire for competitive work (Mueser et al. 2001; Rogers et al. 1991). Various vocational rehabilitation models have been developed to address the poor work outcomes of persons with schizophrenia. Traditional approaches that use a “train-place” approach (i.e., where patients engage in extensive preparation before getting a competitive job, such as vocational counseling, skills training, or sheltered work) found few beneficial effects on competitive work outcomes (Bond 1992). In contrast, vocational rehabilitation models that emphasize rapid job search and attainment and include the provision of follow-along supports (most notably, supported employment) are empirically validated.

Supported Employment Supported employment focuses on helping patients find competitive jobs in integrated community settings and on providing ongoing supports to facilitate good job performance or to help in the transition to another job. The most widely studied approach to supported employment for severe mental illness is the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model (Becker and Drake 2003). The IPS model of supported employment is defined by the principles outlined in Table 5–2. Purpose and scope.

Over the past decade, a growing body of research has documented the effectiveness of supported employment for persons with schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses. Most of the research has examined the IPS model (Becker and Drake 2003), although research also has evaluated other models of supported employment. Five quasi-experimental studies have examined the effects of closing day treatment programs and initiating supported employment programs in their place (Bailey et al. 1998; Becker et al. 2001; Drake et al. 1994, 1996a; M. Gold and Marrone 1998). Across the studies, the conversion to a supported employment program was associated with significant increases in work, without any untoward effects observed, such as increases in relapses or rehospitalizations. In addition to these quasi-experimental studies, 16 randomized controlled trials have reported the superiority of supported employment to a variety of other vocational rehabilitation approaches across the United States and worldwide, as illustrated in Figure 5–1 (Bond et al. 2008). These studies have shown that IPS or other approaches to supported employment result in significantly higher levels of competitive employment over 1–2 years compared with a vaResearch on supported employment.

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TAB L E 5 – 2 . Principles of the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model of supported employment 1. Zero exclusion for participation in program • Eligibility to participate in supported employment program is determined solely by patient’s desire to work. • No clinical stabilization criteria are imposed on patient’s ability to participate in program. 2. Focus on competitive work • Emphasis is on competitive jobs paying competitive wages in integrated community settings. • Focus is on jobs “owned” by patient rather than rehabilitation agency. • Focus is on truly competitive jobs, rather than on protected or sheltered jobs for people with a disability. 3. Rapid job search • Uses brief rather than extensive assessment following enrollment in program. • Job search usually begins within month of patient joining program. • No prevocational skills training is required. 4. Follow-along supports • Time-unlimited supports are provided after individual obtains job. • A wide range of supports is possible, such as teaching job-related skills, teaching social skills related to the workplace, negotiating job accommodations with employer, teaching strategies to cope with cognitive difficulties or symptoms, problem solving work-related challenges, collaborating with natural supports (e.g., family). 5. Attention to patient preferences • Jobs are developed and sought based on patient’s interests and preferences, rather than just availability. • Respect for patient preferences regarding whether to disclose his or her psychiatric disorder to a prospective or current employer. 6. Integration of vocational and clinical services • Vocational and clinical services are integrated at level of clinical treatment team. • When possible, vocational and clinical services are located together at same place. • At least weekly meetings between vocational service provider and clinical team are held. 7. Benefits counseling • All patients receive information about how work may affect their disability benefits. • Patients are informed about specific work incentive programs for persons with disabilities.

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riety of other programs, including sheltered work in New York (Gervey and Bedell 1994); Washington, D.C. (Drake et al. 1999); and South Carolina (P.B. Gold et al. 2004); brokered vocational rehabilitation services in California (Chandler et al. 1997; Twamley et al. 2004), New York (McFarlane et al. 2000), and Connecticut (Mueser et al. 2004); prevocational preparation and skills training in Indiana (Bond et al. 1995) and New Hampshire (Drake et al. 1996b); psychosocial rehabilitation programs in Connecticut (Mueser et al. 2004) and Maryland (Lehman et al. 2002); certified psychosocial clubhouse vocational services in Massachusetts (Macias et al. 2006); diversified vocational placement (i.e., access to multiple types of programs) in Illinois (Bond et al. 2007); and traditional vocational services in Australia, Europe (Burns et al. 2007), Hong Kong (Wong et al. 2008), and Quebec (Latimer et al. 2005). Thus, significant research supports the effectiveness of supported employment for persons with severe mental illness.

SOCIAL COGNITION To this point, we have discussed social and vocational impairment in schizophrenia, with a primary emphasis on remediation strategies that directly target these impairments. In the remainder of this chapter, we provide an overview of social cognition, a construct that has been firmly linked to functional outcome and that may provide additional insight into novel treatment strategies. Social cognition, which has been defined as “the human ability and capacity to perceive the intentions and dispositions of others” (Brothers 1990, p. 28), includes the cognitive processes involved in thoughts about the self, others, social situations, and social interactions (Penn et al. 1997). A related definition has been proposed by Adolphs (1999), who describes it as “the processes that subserve behavior in response to conspecifics, and, in particular, to those higher cognitive processes subserving the extreme, diverse, and flexible social behaviors that are seen in primates” (p. 469). These definitions characterize social cognition as being a key component of social behavior. Unlike nonsocial cognition (or neurocognition), which has enjoyed a long history of investigation in schizophrenia, social cognition has only recently come to the forefront, motivated in part by several factors. First, individuals with schizophrenia show impairments in multiple domains of social cognition. Second, there is growing evidence that individuals with schizophrenia show abnormal functioning of a neural network—composed of the prefrontal cortex, fusiform gyrus, superior temporal sulcus, and amygdala—specialized for the processing of social information, and that these abnormalities may underlie social cognitive impairments (Phillips et al. 2003a, 2003b; Pinkham

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THEORY OF MIND IN SCHIZOPHRENIA Theory of mind (ToM) refers to the ability to represent the mental states of others and/or to make inferences about another’s intentions. Skills that fall under the rubric of ToM include understanding false beliefs, hints, intentions, deception, metaphor, irony, and faux pas. A common way to conceptualize ToM skills is to place them in a hierarchical ordering of complexity. For example, false beliefs are often referred to as being of either first- or secondorder ToM. First-order ToM involves the ability to understand that someone can hold a false belief about the state of the world, whereas second-order ToM is the more complex ability to understand that someone can have a false belief about the belief of another character (Frith and Corcoran 1996). Accordingly, increasingly subtle ToM concepts such as hints, deception, metaphor, and irony are considered more difficult to understand than false beliefs. In the following section, ToM is reviewed specifically as it relates to schizophrenia. ToM deficits that are evident in individuals with schizophrenia, as well as the relation of these deficits to general cognitive abilities, phases of illness, and social functioning, are discussed.

Mind Deficits The finding that individuals with schizophrenia show impairments in ToM has been well established, with meta-analyses by Sprong et al. (2007) and Bora et al. (2009) reporting effect sizes of 1.255 and 1.10, respectively. Recent work also demonstrates that deficits may be present in first-episode (Bertrand et al. 2007; Kettle et al. 2008) and prodromal samples (Chung et al. 2008). Some debate remains, however, about whether certain symptom clusters are most related to this impairment. While some studies suggest greater impairment in individuals with predominantly negative symptoms (Corcoran et al. 1995; Pickup and Frith 2001), others have found that individuals with disorganiza-

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Cognitive Abilities On the whole, it appears that ToM deficits are at least partially independent of cognitive functioning (for reviews, see Brune 2005a, 2005b; Harrington et al. 2005). Meta-analyses addressing this question have reported conflicting results, with Sprong et al. (2007) reporting no effect of IQ on effect size indices and Bora et al. (2009) reporting a significant influence of IQ impairment on ToM deficit. Individual studies also deserve consideration. For example, two studies that matched groups on IQ still found ToM impairments in individuals with schizophrenia compared with healthy and psychiatric control subjects (Frith and Corcoran 1996; Pickup and Frith 2001), and Brunet and colleagues (2003b) elegantly demonstrated that individuals with schizophrenia could successfully complete sequences of physical causality, both with and without social characters, but that they could not complete sequences involving the attribution of intentions or ToM. These results remained stable after controlling for verbal IQ. In addition to these behavioral studies, neuroimaging research also supports the dissociation between ToM and cognitive abilities. Numerous neuroimaging studies of healthy individuals suggest that there are specific neural structures that subserve ToM (for review, see Pinkham et al. 2003). These structures, primarily the medial prefrontal cortex and, to some extent, the orbitofrontal cortex (Brodmann areas 8 and 9), are activated in healthy individuals during ToM tasks but not during comparable non-ToM cognitive tasks. As applied to schizophrenia, several studies have found reduced activation of the medial prefrontal cortex during tasks of mental state attribution and have suggested that these abnormalities may underlie ToM deficits (Brunet et al. 2003a; Pinkham et al. 2008; Russell et al. 2000). Thus, a strong case can be made that ToM is generally independent from general cognitive functioning and that impairments in ToM are not caused by deficits in general intellectual abilities.

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A State or Trait Deficit? An important question is whether ToM deficits are dependent on the individual’s clinical state (i.e., stage of illness) or whether they are a trait characteristic. Several studies support the idea of a state-dependent relationship. One of the earliest studies to address this question found that individuals whose symptoms were in remission at the time of testing performed just as well as control subjects on a hinting ToM task (Corcoran et al. 1995)—a finding that has been replicated in multiple studies using a variety of ToM tasks, including first- and second-order false belief tasks (Frith and Corcoran 1996; Pickup and Frith 2001), metaphor and irony tasks (Drury et al. 1998), and the hinting task (Corcoran 2003). Despite these findings, evidence supporting a trait hypothesis is mounting. Perhaps most convincingly, both previously mentioned meta-analyses report that ToM deficits persist in patients whose symptoms are in remission (Bora et al. 2009; Sprong et al. 2007). Thus, at present, it appears that a combination of state and trait factors is likely involved such that deficits are exacerbated during acute episodes but remain even in asymptomatic individuals.

Social Functioning Thus far, the majority of research on social functioning has focused on characterizing the nature of deficits in ToM; however, a growing number of studies has confirmed the presence of a strong relationship between ToM and social functioning and social outcome (Pinkham and Penn 2006; Pollice et al. 2002). For example, Brune (2005) found that ToM performance accounted for 24% of the variance in problem social behavior, and Roncone et al. (2002) reported that ToM accounted for 15% of the variance in social functioning. Thus, it appears that deficits in ToM have an association with social functioning, which provides support for targeting ToM in psychosocial treatment trials, as has been done in autism research (Hadwin et al. 1996, 1997; Ozonoff and Miller 1995; Swettenham 1996). Overall, we may conclude that individuals with schizophrenia have impairments in ToM that appear to be somewhat independent from general cognitive abilities and that are likely present even in remitted states. Future work will likely be targeted toward further elucidating the relationship between specific symptoms and ToM deficits and developing ToM remediation programs that may ultimately result in improved functioning.

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Self-Serving and Personalizing Biases Attributional style in schizophrenia has received much attention over the past 15 years, and unlike depression, the internal dimension has fostered the greatest interest in schizophrenia research. Richard Bentall, the pioneer in this area, and colleagues observed that individuals with paranoia or persecutory delusions (the former referring to diagnostic subtypes, the latter to symptom severity) tended to show a selfserving bias (i.e., taking credit for successful outcomes and denying responsibility for negative outcomes) that was, they argued, an exaggeration of the bias seen in nonclinical control subjects (and opposite to what is typically observed in depressed individuals) (Bentall et al. 1994, 2001; Blackwood et al. 2001; Kaney and Bentall 1989). However, as pointed out in a number of excellent reviews (Bentall et al. 2001; Garety and Freeman 1999), direct replication of the self-serving bias has been limited (Candido and Romney 1990), with studies either finding no evidence of a self-serving bias (Martin and Penn 2002) or providing only partial support in the form of only an external attribution for negative outcomes (rather than the additional positive attribution for positive outcomes) (Fear et al. 1996; Garety and Freeman 1999; Kinderman and Bentall 1997; Krstev et al. 1999; Lyon et al. 1994; Sharp et al. 1997). Perhaps as a result, several more recent studies have utilized the broader term “externalizing bias,” rather than the more specific self-serving bias, when reporting on attributional style in schizophrenia (Janssen et al. 2006; Langdon et al. 2006, 2010). The investigation of the tendency of individuals with persecutory delusions to attribute negative outcomes to external factors can be refined by distinguishing between external “personal” attributions (i.e., causes that are attributed to other people) and external “situational” attributions (i.e., causes that

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are attributed to situational factors) (Kinderman and Bentall 1996a, 1996b). This distinction is in accord with the clinical experience of individuals with persecutory delusions, who often explain negative outcomes (e.g., someone not returning a phone call right away) as being due to malevolent intentions (e.g., that person is angry at them) rather than to a situational context (e.g., the person is out of town). Kinderman and Bentall (1996b) described this style of attributing negative outcomes to others, rather than to situations, as a “personalizing bias.” There is growing evidence in support of a personalizing bias for individuals with persecutory delusions (reviewed in Bentall et al. 2001; Garety and Freeman 1999; see also Aarke et al. 2009; Langdon et al. 2010). Specifically, a tendency toward a personalizing bias has been observed in people with persecutory delusions relative to individuals with depression (Kinderman and Bentall 1997), nonparanoid individuals with schizophrenia (Aarke et al. 2009), and nonclinical control subjects (Kinderman and Bentall 1997; Martin and Penn 2002) and may be most pronounced in individuals with acute, rather than remitted, symptoms (Aarke et al. 2009; Randall et al. 2003). This tendency to blame others likely increases negative affect, defensiveness, avoidance, and possibly aggressive behaviors (Waldheter et al. 2005).

Unanswered Questions The study of attributional style has demonstrated that attributions may be best understood within symptom rather than diagnostic category models and that people with persecutory delusions have a tendency to blame others, rather than situations, for negative outcomes. There remain, however, a number of unanswered questions that plague this area of research. First and foremost is how to measure attributions in this clinical population. Current measures of attributional style have been criticized as having poor psychometric properties (e.g., ASQ) or, because of being composed of hypothetical scenarios, as having questionable external validity (e.g., IPSAQ) (Bentall et al. 2001; Garety and Freeman 1999). In addition, the most widely used measures of attributional style in schizophrenia research do not make a distinction among negative outcomes that vary in degree of intentionality. For example, most people would agree that the following scenario involves a negative outcome in which the intent is clear: “A person jumps ahead of you on a grocery line and says, ‘I’m in a rush.’” However, what would be the intent in the following situation? “You walk past a group of teenagers, and as you pass by you hear them laugh.” One could argue that it is the latter type of situation, in which the intent is ambiguous, that is particularly problematic for individuals with persecutory delusions. Of note, however, a new measure, the Ambiguous Intentions Hostility

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ESSENTIALS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA Questionnaire (AIHQ; Combs et al. 2007b), has been developed to address this possibility, and initial results show a strong relationship between a hostile social cognitive bias and paranoia (Combs et al. 2007b). Perhaps the most pressing unanswered question in this area is the mechanism by which persecutory beliefs lead to attributional biases or vice versa. As reviewed by Penn et al. (2008), current models posit a beneficial role for attributional biases, as the tendency to blame others for negative outcomes may protect the individual with persecutory delusions from low self-esteem. One trade-off, however, is that continually blaming others for negative outcomes can lead to increasingly negative views of others—views that are not corrected over time even in the face of exonerating evidence. Bentall and colleagues (2001) hypothesize that two factors may prevent people with persecutory delusions from correcting for situational information. First, individuals with persecutory beliefs may have a greater need for “closure” (i.e., a desire to get a specific answer on a topic or issue, rather than dealing with ambiguity)—a hypothesis with some preliminary support in samples with both nonclinical (Colbert and Peters 2002) and clinical (Bentall and Swarbrick 2003) levels of delusional ideation. Second, individuals with persecutory delusions may be ignoring not only social context but also the “mental” context of others; in other words, impairments in theory of mind may contribute to personalizing biases. Recent evidence from nonclinical (Kinderman et al. 1998; Taylor and Kinderman 2002) and clinical (Randall et al. 2003) samples supports the association between deficits in theory of mind and the tendency to make external-personal attributions. While promising, this model may be somewhat incomplete, as other social cognitive biases, such as the tendency to “jump to conclusions” or to display a confirmation bias (i.e., giving more weight to information that supports an already held belief than information that does not support it), have also been linked to paranoid ideation (for a review, see Freeman 2007; see also Merrin et al. 2007). In fact, an impressive and recent transdiagnostic study of paranoid ideation found that the best predictive model of paranoid thinking included a combination of pessimistic thinking style (low self-esteem, a tendency to make global and stable attributions, and negative emotion) and impaired cognitive performance (executive function, jumping to conclusions, and ToM) (Bentall et al. 2009). Unfortunately, externalizing bias could not be included in the analysis because of inadequate reliability, raising the possibility that even this advanced model may be incomplete. It is therefore clear that further examination of these relationships is needed to form a comprehensive model of the mechanisms underlying attributional style and persecutory delusions.

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FACIAL AFFECT RECOGNITION One important component of social cognition that has been widely studied in schizophrenia is the ability to recognize affect in the faces of others. It has been relatively well established that individuals with schizophrenia generally show deficits in both identification and discrimination of facial affect, and a recent meta-analysis reported a large overall effect size (d=–0.91; Kohler et al. 2010). The many studies in this area have been reviewed previously (Edwards et al. 2002; Mandal et al. 1998; Pinkham et al. 2003, 2007a). However, several questions have arisen that include the specificity of the deficit in terms of schizophrenia, the emotional valence of the deficit, the stability of the deficit, and the nature of the deficit, namely, whether the impairment is specific to emotions or due to generalized poor performance. Further, the relationship of facial affect recognition with both social and cognitive functioning requires consideration.

Is the Deficit Specific to Schizophrenia? Studies have shown that individuals with schizophrenia perform more poorly than nonpatient and psychiatric control subjects on tests of facial affect recognition (Mandal 1986; Morrison et al. 1988; Muzekari and Bates 1977; Walker et al. 1980). However, variability is evident depending on the type of psychiatric comparison group. Specifically, several studies demonstrate an advantage for individuals with depression compared with those with schizophrenia (e.g., Gaebel and Wolwer 1992; Gessler et al. 1989; Weniger et al. 2004; see Schneider et al. 1995 for an exception), but, as compared with bipolar disorder, findings have been less consistent. Addington and Addington (1998) reported that individuals with schizophrenia performed significantly worse on facial affect recognition tasks than individuals with bipolar disorder, and this finding was replicated with a first-episode sample (Edwards et al. 2001). In contrast, however, Bellack and colleagues (1996) did not find any differences between subjects with schizophrenia and subjects with bipolar disorder. Finally, Bolte and Poustka (2003) found that individuals with schizophrenia performed better than individuals with autism on a facial recognition test; however, Sasson et al. (2007) reported no difference between individuals with autism and individuals with schizophrenia in emotion recognition performance despite differences in visual orienting to faces. Overall, these findings suggest that although individuals with schizophrenia are impaired in facial affect recognition relative to nonclinical control subjects, performance deficits compared with clinical control subjects are less consistently shown.

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Does the Deficit Occur With All Emotions? Further research suggests that difficulties in affect recognition are a function of the specific emotions being identified. Individuals with schizophrenia appear to have more difficulty when tasks involve identification or discrimination of negative emotions (e.g., fear, anger) compared with more positive emotions (i.e., happiness; Bigelow et al. 2006; Borod et al. 1993; Edwards et al. 2001) , and recognition deficits may be most pronounced for fear (Kohler et al. 2003). Further, individuals with schizophrenia may tend to misattribute neutral features as negative (Kohler et al. 2003; Pinkham et al. 2011).

Is the Deficit Stable Over Time? A number of cross-sectional studies have demonstrated a decrease in affect recognition deficits during remission (Gaebel and Wolwer 1992; Gessler et al. 1989). Penn and colleagues (2000) found that acutely ill individuals with schizophrenia perform worse than chronically ill yet stable inpatients on emotion perception tasks. The few longitudinal studies examining the stability of these deficits, however, suggest that such deficits tend to remain. In Addington and Addington’s (1998) study, despite a highly significant improvement in positive and negative symptoms from the time of hospitalization to 3-month follow-up, patients showed no improvement in facial affect recognition, suggesting that deficits are stable and do not improve with symptom remission. This finding supports and improves on the results of Gaebel and Wolwer (1992) and Streit and colleagues (1997), whose follow-up periods were only 4 weeks. In a more recent study, the longitudinal stability (1 year) of deficits in facial affect recognition has been supported (Kee et al. 2003).

Is the Deficit a Result of a Specific or Generalized Impairment? One question that arises is whether these deficits in affect recognition are the result of a specific impairment in facial affect recognition or whether they are related to general cognitive or face processing impairments. Several studies argue for a differential deficit (Heimberg et al. 1992; Kosmidis et al. 2007; Penn et al. 2000; Schneider et al. 2006; Silver et al. 2009; Walker et al. 1984); however, others have shown that although schizophrenia subjects perform more poorly than control subjects on facial affect recognition tasks, they also perform more poorly on a control task, usually a facial recognition task (Addington and Addington 1998; Feinberg et al. 1986; Gessler et al. 1989; Kerr and Neale 1993; Martin et al. 2005; Mueser et al. 1996; Novic et al. 1984; Sachs et al. 2004; Salem et al. 1996). While these findings suggest that facial affect impairment is more likely to be a generalized impairment than a specific impairment, Penn and col-

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leagues (1997) highlight an important consideration—namely, the nature of the “control” task, which typically is a face perception test. Although this type of task controls for the affective quality of the stimulus, it is also a social stimulus and therefore limits the conclusions that can be made about a specific versus generalized deficit in social cognition proper. Work that uses a differential deficit design, which must include both social and nonsocial perception tasks, is clearly warranted to further our understanding of the deficit’s specificity.

Relationship Among Facial Affect Recognition, Neurocognition, and Social Functioning Several studies have demonstrated that facial affect recognition is significantly related to various aspects of social functioning, such as social skill, general social functioning, and quality of life (Hooker and Park 2002; Ihnen et al. 1998; Kee et al. 2003; Mueser et al. 1996; Penn et al. 1996; Pinkham and Penn 2006; for a review, see Couture et al. 2006). This finding suggests that social cognition has functional significance for individuals with schizophrenia. Perhaps more importantly, a few more recent studies have demonstrated that the relationship between neurocognition and functional outcome may depend on affect recognition, either as a moderator (Nienow et al. 2006) or as a mediator (Addington et al. 2006a; Horton and Silverstein 2008). Thus, this preliminary evidence suggests that facial affect recognition, although related to cognitive and social functioning, may be a distinct construct that is independently related to social functioning.

Unanswered Questions A number of unanswered questions remain. First, given the heterogeneity of schizophrenia, it is important to determine whether specific symptoms relate, or contribute, to facial recognition deficits. For example, there is some evidence that individuals with persecutory delusions or paranoia perform better on facial recognition tasks relative to nonparanoid individuals with schizophrenia (Davis and Gibson 2000; Kline et al. 1992; Lewis and Garver 1995; for an exception, see Pinkham et al. 2011). Conversely, negative symptoms or the deficit syndrome may impair emotion perception (Bryson et al. 1998; Gur et al. 2006; Mueser et al. 1996; for exceptions, see Silver and Shlomo 2001; Streit et al. 1997). This finding suggests that a finer-grained analysis of facial affect recognition in schizophrenia may be obtained by forming symptom subgroups of individuals. Second, it is still unclear exactly when affect recognition deficits emerge. Recent work suggests that impairments are present during the first-episode (Edwards et al. 2001), as well as early in the course of

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CONCLUSION Impairments in social and vocational functioning are a defining characteristic of schizophrenia and include poor quality of social relationships and difficulty with role functioning in areas such as school, work, and parenting. Problems in social functioning appear to be at least partly related to symptoms of the illness, including psychotic, negative, and cognitive symptoms, but are not fully explained by those symptoms. Economic constraints and environmental factors such as stigma and discrimination also play a role in limiting social functioning. Although impairments in functioning tend to be relatively stable and long term in schizophrenia, significant advances have been made in the development of interventions for improving functioning. Most notable among those interventions are social skills training, cognitive-behavioral therapy for psychosis, and cognitive remediation to improve social functioning, and supported employment to improve vocational outcomes. The study of social cognition also provides a promising avenue for intervention. As reviewed here, individuals with schizophrenia display impairments in multiple domains of social cognition, and such deficits are related to social functioning. These findings, however, are just a start, and there is still a great deal of work that is needed before a more complete understanding of the role of social cognition in schizophrenia can be gained. Likely tar-

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gets for future efforts include remediation strategies and refined measures. Newly developed social cognitive remediation programs show promise for ameliorative change (Combs et al. 2007a; Horan et al. 2009; Roberts and Penn 2009); however, additional work is needed to fully establish the efficacy of these interventions and to investigate the impact of these programs on social functioning. Likewise, despite the considerable advancements reviewed here, the measurement of social cognitive abilities remains difficult, as the majority of currently used measures have only limited psychometric development. Before social cognition can be a truly meaningful treatment target, reliable and valid measures are necessary. Improved measurement may also help answer many of the questions raised here and, as such, should be a priority for future investigations.

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More than half of all patients with schizophrenia experience at least one cooccurring (i.e., comorbid) psychiatric disorder (Bermanzohn et al. 2000; Bland et al. 1987; Cassano et al. 1998) (Table 6–1). Detection and effective treatment of co-occurring disorders are essential if patient outcomes are to be optimized. Some co-occurring conditions may have a genetic link to schizophrenia, and research aimed at establishing whether patients with schizophrenia are at increased risk for certain disorders may expand our understanding of the causes of schizophrenia.

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Co-occurring substance use and other psychiatric disorders in schizophrenia Estimated lifetime prevalence (%) 47–59

Recommended treatments Integrated treatments for mental illness and substance use disorders; medications for substance use disorders; clozapine may be better than other antipsychotics

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Co-occurring disorders also may provide clues about the neurobiology of schizophrenia. For example, Green and colleagues (1999) proposed a neurobiological hypothesis to explain the high rates of substance use disorders observed in patients with schizophrenia. This hypothesis suggests that dysfunctional mesocorticolimbic brain reward pathways may underlie the symptoms of schizophrenia and the high vulnerability to substance abuse. Although medications and psychosocial interventions are effective for the treatment of symptoms of schizophrenia and its associated cognitive deficits, identifying and treating co-occurring conditions remain major clinical challenges. In this chapter, we address co-occurring substance use disorder,

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depressive disorder, suicide, panic, social phobia, trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS PREVALENCE AND ETIOLOGY The lifetime prevalence of substance use disorders in patients with schizophrenia is surprisingly high. The Epidemiologic Catchment Area study reported a lifetime prevalence of 47% in people with schizophrenia as compared with 16% of the general population (Regier et al. 1990). Alcohol is the most commonly abused substance in patients with schizophrenia, followed by cannabis (Drake and Mueser 1996; Kendler et al. 1996; Mueser et al. 1990; Selzer and Lieberman 1993). In addition, most people with schizophrenia are dependent on nicotine (58%–90%) (Dalack et al. 1998; Hughes et al. 1986). Substance use disorders complicate the course of illness and treatment of patients with schizophrenia. Substance use is associated with treatment nonadherence; suicidality; hospitalization; homelessness; victimization; violence; increased risk for HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C infection; and lower functioning in general (Brady et al. 1990; Drake and Mueser 1996; Drake et al. 1989; Hurlburt et al. 1996; Lysaker et al. 1994; Neria et al. 2002; Owen et al. 1996; Rosenberg et al. 2001a). Substance use disorders in firstepisode patients may complicate assessment of the psychosis and delay treatment (Addington and Addington 2001; Green et al. 2004).

DETECTION AND MANAGEMENT Co-occurring substance use disorders are often underdetected and undertreated in mental health settings (Ananth et al. 1989; Ridgely et al. 1990). Screening and assessment can be assisted through the use of standardized measures, especially instruments specifically developed for patients with mental illness (e.g., Dartmouth Assessment of Lifestyle Instrument [Rosenberg et al. 1998], Alcohol Use Scale [Mueser et al. 1995], and Drug Use Scale [Mueser et al. 1995]). Clinicians should supplement their observation of behaviors consistent with substance use (e.g., frequent missed appointments and financial or legal problems) with collateral information from family members, case managers, and significant others. A functional analysis of substance use incorporates the patient’s view of both the positive and the negative aspects of substance use and actively involves the patient in the assessment process while simultaneously providing the foundation for cognitive-behavioral

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Principles of integrated dual-disorder treatment for patients with schizophrenia

Integration of mental health and substance use disorder treatments Stagewise treatment that is tailored to the patient’s motivation for change Comprehensive services that include medication management, psychosocial rehabilitation, skills training, and residential and vocational services Long-term perspective substance abuse counseling. A nonjudgmental attitude reinforces honest communication about substance use and improves detection and treatment (Miller and Rollnick 2002). In a review of 26 controlled studies of outpatient and residential programs, Drake and colleagues (2004) emphasized that integrating the treatment of the psychotic and the substance use disorders, thereby allowing for the coordination of pharmacotherapy, psychosocial treatments, and substance abuse counseling into one comprehensible package, results in improved patient outcomes (Barrowclough et al. 2001; Blankertz and Cnaan 1994; Drake et al. 1998). Important components of the effective integrated treatment of dual disorders include 1) integration of mental health and substance use disorder treatments; 2) staged interventions that are tailored to the patient’s motivation for change (e.g., assertive outreach and motivational interviewing); 3) comprehensive services (e.g., medication management, rehabilitation, and social support interventions); and 4) a long-term perspective (Drake et al. 2004) (see Table 6–2). One such treatment program, Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (Brunette et al. 2002; Mueser et al. 2003a), recommends that multidisciplinary teams provide the components of integrated care via case management, individual counseling, treatment groups, and family interventions. Research on the optimal pharmacotherapy for dual-diagnosis patients has not yet established a standardized treatment approach (Green et al. 2008; Krystal et al. 1999; Noordsy and Green 2003; Wilkins 1997). While it is clear that antipsychotic agents decrease symptoms of psychosis in patients with cooccurring substance abuse disorder, many of these patients continue to use substances and experience poor outcomes despite such treatment (Drake et al. 1989; Salyers and Mueser 2001). Six preliminary studies, however, have suggested that clozapine may be helpful in treating substance use disorders (Brunette et al. 2006; Buckley et al. 1999; Drake et al. 2000; Green et al. 2003; Lee 1998; Zimmet et al. 2000).

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Research findings on the effect of risperidone (Albanese 2001; Green et al. 2003; Smelson et al. 2002), olanzapine (Littrell et al. 2001; Longo 2002; Noordsy et al. 2001; Tsuang et al. 2002), quetiapine (Brown et al. 2002; Brunette et al. 2009; Potvin et al. 2006), and aripiprazole (Beresford et al. 2005; Brown et al. 2005; Warsi et al. 2005) at present appear less promising. Clozapine may be uniquely effective for patients with schizophrenia and substance use disorders because it potently blocks α2-noradrenergic receptors, increases norepinephrine levels, and weakly blocks dopamine2 (D2) receptors, which may allow it to normalize the signal detection capability of dysfunctional mesocorticolimbic brain reward circuits (Green et al. 1999). Clearly, more studies are required to assess the effects of antipsychotics in this population. Other medications demonstrated to be effective for the treatment of substance abuse in the general population show some promise for patients with schizophrenia. The following have evidence for efficacy: bupropion (Evins et al. 2001, 2005; George et al. 2002; Weiner et al. 2001) and varenicline for smoking cessation (Nino-Gomez et al. 2010); desipramine and imipramine for cocaine use disorder (Siris et al. 1993; Ziedonis et al. 1992); and disulfiram (Kofoed et al. 1986; Mueser et al. 2003b), and naltrexone (Dougherty 1997; Maxwell and Shinderman 1997, 2000; Petrakis et al. 2004, 2005) for alcohol disorders. Prescription benzodiazepine use is common for people with dual disorders (Clark et al. 2004), but these medications do not appear to improve outcomes and are associated with the development of benzodiazepine use disorders (Brunette et al. 2003). A shared decision-making approach to prescribing medications is useful (Noordsy et al. 2000). Clinicians should encourage patients to take appropriate psychotropic medication, despite ongoing substance use, to stabilize the mental illness and to facilitate participation in substance abuse counseling. Comprehensive, integrated psychosocial and psychopharmacological treatments of both the psychotic and the substance use disorders delivered by multidisciplinary teams are recommended (Drake et al. 2001; Mueser et al. 2003a).

DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS PREVALENCE AND OUTCOME Although schizophrenia is viewed primarily as a psychotic disorder, patients with schizophrenia experience a variety of depressive states, ranging from dysphoria to major depression. The National Comorbidity Study (Kendler et al. 1996), as well as other studies (Bland et al. 1987; Hafner et al. 1999; Koreen et

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ESSENTIALS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA al. 1993; Martin et al. 1985), reported a lifetime risk of depression in patients with schizophrenia of up to 81%, with the point prevalence of major depression ranging from 10% to 30% (Baynes et al. 2000; Delahanty et al. 2001; Hafner et al. 1999; Herbener and Harrow 2002; Jin et al. 2001; Messias et al. 2001). Depression can be a symptom of the prodromal period prior to onset of psychotic symptoms (Hafner et al. 1999). It can also be an integral component of an acute episode of schizophrenia (McGlashan and Carpenter 1976; Sax et al. 1996), resolving as the psychosis remits (J. Addington et al. 2003; Hafner et al. 1999; Koreen et al. 1993; Oosthuizen et al. 2002; Tollefson et al. 1999). Depression is associated with a risk of relapse of psychosis (Mandel et al. 1982), readmission (Shepherd et al. 1989), worse functioning (Jin et al. 2001), lower quality of life (Delahanty et al. 2001), and suicide (Drake et al. 1986), and relatives report more distress over this symptom cluster than over others (Boye et al. 2001).

DETECTION AND MANAGEMENT Symptoms of depression are common during exacerbations of psychosis (Baynes et al. 2000; Hafner et al. 1999; Jin et al. 2001; Oosthuizen et al. 2002) and usually improve as the psychosis remits (Birchwood et al. 2000; Hafner et al. 1999; Koreen et al. 1993; Tollefson et al. 1999). Postpsychotic depression classically emerges after the resolution of psychotic symptoms and is most common after the first episode of schizophrenia (Birchwood et al. 2000; Koreen et al. 1993). In patients with schizoaffective disorder, depressed type, symptoms of depression are present concurrently with psychosis for a substantial proportion of the total duration of the psychotic illness. Other clinically significant depressive phenomena, such as dysphoria and demoralization, occur frequently in patients with schizophrenia (Iqbal et al. 2000; Siris 2000a), although classic vegetative symptoms of depression may not be present in such patients (Bartels and Drake 1988). Some patients develop a sense of hopelessness, helplessness, and external locus of control, phenomena that Hoffman and colleagues (2000) found to be more powerful predictors of poor outcome in rehabilitation than depressive symptoms per se. Symptoms of depression in patients with schizophrenia can be mistaken for negative symptoms, including affective flattening, alogia, avolition, apathy, anhedonia, and asociality (Birchwood et al. 2000; Sax et al. 1996; Siris 2000a), or for medication side effects, such as sedation, akinesia, and parkinsonism (Norman et al. 1998; Siris 1987). Key features of depression that distinguish it from negative symptoms include the presence of depressed mood, nondelusional guilt, and neurovegetative symptoms. By contrast, flat affect and anhedonic indifference without mood changes are more characteristic

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of negative symptoms than depression (Herbener and Harrow 2002; McGlashan and Carpenter 1976). Cognitive impairment, another relatively independent aspect of schizophrenia (Tamminga et al. 1998), has been shown to correlate with depressive symptoms and syndromes (Brebion et al. 1997, 2000; Holthausen et al. 1999). Although some clinical trials suggest that second-generation antipsychotics may be more effective than first-generation agents in treating acutely psychotic patients with schizophrenia and depression symptoms (Azorin 1995; Banov et al. 1994; Emsley et al. 2003; Marder et al. 1997; Tollefson et al. 1998), several studies found that risperidone treatment does not improve symptoms of depression more than haloperidol (Ceskova and Cvesta 1993; Moller et al. 1995; Peuskens 1995). The results of controlled studies of the adjunctive use of antidepressant medications with antipsychotics have been mixed: 9 of 17 studies reported improvement compared with placebo or a comparison medication (D. Addington et al. 2002; Becker 1983; Dufresne et al. 1988; Hogarty et al. 1995; Johnson 1981; Kirli and Caliskan 1998; Kramer et al. 1989; Kurland and Nagaraju 1981; Mulholland et al. 2003; Muller-Siecheneder et al. 1998; Prusoff et al. 1979; Singh et al. 1978; Siris et al. 1987, 1989a, 1992; Vlokh et al. 2000; Waehrens and Gerlach 1980); however, many of these studies were limited by small sample size. Psychosocial interventions that may be helpful for the treatment of depression include problem-solving training, coping skills training, cognitive therapy, exercise, family therapy, and support (Siris 1990, 2000b). For people who are demoralized, interventions geared toward meaningful activities can be helpful (Provencher et al. 2002). Management of depressive symptoms in patients with schizophrenia depends on when such symptoms appear during the disorder as well as on their severity and their persistence. Because depressive symptoms may herald psychotic relapse, the patient should be monitored carefully for the emergence or exacerbation of psychosis. If the depression is part of a psychotic exacerbation, antipsychotic medication treatment should be optimized. If depressive symptoms persist or worsen in the absence of a psychotic exacerbation, use of an antidepressant medication or ECT can be considered.

SUICIDE PREVALENCE AND RISK FACTORS Suicide is the leading cause of premature death in people with schizophrenia (Black et al. 1985; Osby et al. 2000). Nearly 50% of patients with schizophrenia

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ESSENTIALS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA attempt suicide, and their lifetime risk of death by suicide is 5%–10% (Inskip et al. 1998; Palmer et al. 2005; Tsuang et al. 1999), a rate at least 10-fold higher than in the general population (Baxter and Appleby 1999; Dutta et al. 2010). Suicide in patients with schizophrenia has been associated with depression, anxiety, hopelessness, and a sense of failure (Bartels et al. 1992; Drake and Cotton 1986; Drake et al. 1985; Funahashi et al. 2000; Heila et al. 1997; Saarinen et al. 1999; Westermeyer et al. 1991). Drake and Cotton (1986) found that patients with schizophrenia who succeeded in a suicide attempt had been more depressed and isolated than were those who did not succeed. Moreover, suicide can be a “nonpsychotic reaction to a severe illness” (Drake et al. 1985), a notion that is supported by data showing a relation between higher levels of awareness and increased suicide risk in these patients (Amador et al. 1996). Predictors of suicide in people with schizophrenia include a history of previous suicide attempts, earlier age at onset, and poor functioning (Alleback et al. 1987; Burgess et al. 2000; Nordentoft et al. 2002; Rossau and Mortensen 1997; Roy 1982). Men are at higher risk (Rossau and Mortensen 1997), and patients who attempt or commit suicide score higher on impulsivity scales (Dervaux et al. 2001). Risk of suicide is elevated 3 months after discharge from a psychiatric hospitalization (Heila et al. 1999; Rossau and Mortensen 1997; Roy 1982). The early and active phases of the illness (Baxter and Appleby 1999; Heila et al. 1997; Osby et al. 2000; Westermeyer et al. 1991) are times of increased risk. Patients with prominent negative symptoms may have a somewhat reduced risk for suicide as compared with patients with mostly positive symptoms (Fenton et al. 1997). Although substance abuse is an established risk factor for suicide in the general population (Weiss and Hufford 1999), the evidence is mixed as to whether it is a risk factor among patients with schizophrenia (Alleback et al. 1987; Drake and Cotton 1986; Gupta et al. 1998; Meltzer 2002).

DETECTION AND MANAGEMENT The detection of suicidal ideation and prevention of suicide in patients with schizophrenia can be difficult, as many suicide attempts are impulsive (Alleback et al. 1987; Gut-Fayand et al. 2001), and because patients may use highly lethal methods (Breier and Astrachan 1984; Heila et al. 1997) and give no advance disclosure (Earle et al. 1994). Harkavy-Friedman and Nelson (1997) suggested that psychosocial and biological issues should be addressed. Listening and responding to the patient’s reports of distress is crucial (Cohen et al. 1990). Burgess and colleagues (2000) pointed out that increasing the level of supervision and support, and

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ensuring continuity of care across systems, are essential for suicide prevention. Hospitalization can maintain safety as well as provide an opportunity for review and adjustment of psychopharmacological treatments. When the patient is discharged, engagement into treatment should be assured; intensive outreach may be required to engage patients with schizophrenia (Burgess et al. 2000). Adequate psychopharmacological treatment of psychosis is essential. In a study of 88 patients with schizophrenia who died by suicide, Heila et al. (1999) found that more than half either had been prescribed inadequate doses of antipsychotic medication or had not been compliant with treatment; and an additional 23% had been judged nonresponsive to medication treatment. Psychoeducation and close monitoring may increase compliance with pharmacological treatment. Studies suggest that clozapine may decrease suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and suicide completion in persons with schizophrenia more effectively than first-generation antipsychotic medications (Meltzer and Okayli 1995; Reid et al. 1998; Walker et al. 1997). Moreover, Meltzer and colleagues (2003) found that clozapine was more effective in decreasing suicidality than olanzapine in a large international trial of high-risk patients. Optimal treatment for patients with schizophrenia who are at risk for suicide includes careful assessment of risk factors for suicide, the use of active outreach to engage patients in treatment and reduce isolation, psychosocial rehabilitation and skills training to improve coping skills, and effective pharmacotherapy.

ANXIETY SYMPTOMS AND DISORDERS Anxiety symptoms and disorders are common in patients with schizophrenia. In diagnosing a co-occurring anxiety disorder, anxiety symptoms occurring during psychotic episodes must be differentiated from paranoia, reactions to delusions, and agitation related to psychosis. For example, Bayle and colleagues (2001) noted that panic attacks can be related to paranoid ideas. Additionally, anxiety must be differentiated from antipsychotic medication– induced side effects, such as akathisia, as well as other comorbid syndromes, such as substance-induced symptoms (e.g., cocaine intoxication or alcohol withdrawal) and depressive disorders (Zisook et al. 1999).

PANIC ATTACKS AND PANIC DISORDER Prevalence and Outcome Up to 45% of patients with schizophrenia experience panic attacks (Argyle 1990; Bayle et al. 2001; Bermanzohn et al. 2000; Bland et al. 1987; Craig et

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ESSENTIALS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA al. 2002; Goodwin et al. 2002; Labbate et al. 1999; Moorey and Soni 1994; Tibbo et al. 2003). Full panic disorder, with recurring spontaneous panic attacks and associated disability, occurs in 6%–33% (Argyle 1990; Bermanzohn et al. 2000; Cosoff and Hafner 1998; Kendler et al. 1996; Labbate et al. 1999; Pallanti et al. 2004; Stratkowsky et al. 1993; Tibbo et al. 2003). The National Comorbidity Study found that 26% of patients with schizophrenia had panic disorder (Kendler et al. 1996). Patients with schizophrenia and panic attacks are more likely to be female, Caucasian, and married as well as to have less education (Goodwin et al. 2002). The effect of panic on the course of schizophrenia and its relation to positive symptoms of psychosis remain poorly understood. Panic has been associated with comorbid depression and suicidal ideation in patients with schizophrenia (Bermanzohn et al. 2000; Cutler and Siris 1991; Goodwin et al. 2002).

Detection and Management Patients with schizophrenia and panic experience the full spectrum of classic panic symptoms (Goodwin et al. 2002). Goodwin and colleagues (2002) reported that trembling, feelings of unreality, and fear of dying are particularly prominent symptoms. Although patients with schizophrenia and panic are more likely to seek mental health and medical treatment than are patients with schizophrenia who do not have panic symptoms (Goodwin et al. 2002), panic is dramatically underrecognized in these patients (Craig et al. 2002). In a small, uncontrolled study of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for panic in patients with schizophrenia, Arlow and colleagues (1997) attempted a 16-week CBT program, including psychoeducation, cognitive restructuring, and in vivo exposure. They found that 73% of the patients were able to complete treatment; of those who completed the treatment, 75% experienced symptom improvement. Although antipsychotic medications generally reduce anxiety (Marder et al. 1997), no studies have assessed the effect of antipsychotic medications on panic per se. No controlled studies have assessed the effectiveness of antidepressants or benzodiazepines for panic disorder in patients with schizophrenia. A report of two patients showed that panic symptoms that had not responded to antipsychotic medication did respond to imipramine augmentation of fluphenazine (Siris et al. 1989b). In addition, two studies showed that benzodiazepines reduced panic attacks in 10 patients with schizophrenia (Argyle 1990; Kahn et al. 1988) and that psychotic symptoms improved as the panic improved.

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SOCIAL PHOBIA Prevalence and Outcome Many patients with schizophrenia have social anxiety and resulting social dysfunction (Morrison and Bellack 1987). A full social phobia syndrome was found in 15%–36% of small groups of patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders (Argyle 1990; Cosoff and Hafner 1998; Pallanti et al. 2004; Tibbo et al. 2003) and in 40% of the patients with schizophrenia in the National Comorbidity Study (Kendler et al. 1996).

Detection and Management Patients with schizophrenia and social anxiety show levels of social fear (Penn et al. 1994) and social phobia (Pallanti et al. 2004) similar to those in persons with primary social phobia. However, social anxiety and fear of social situations must be carefully delineated from paranoia, withdrawal, and apathy (Pallanti et al. 2004; Penn et al. 1994). The key identifying features of social phobia are fear of social situations in which the individual might be scrutinized by others and avoidance of those situations or endurance of them only with intense anxiety. Evidence of embarrassment regarding scrutiny, rather than fear of persecution, will help identify patients with schizophrenia and social fear. One controlled study of cognitive-behavioral group treatment for schizophrenia patients with social phobia found that social anxiety and depression improved in the treatment group as compared with the control group (Halperin et al. 2000). Social skills training and other rehabilitation efforts should incorporate education and gradual exposure to feared social situations (Heinssen and Glass 1990; Penn et al. 1994). Antipsychotic medications alone may not always be helpful. Pallanti and colleagues (1999) described 12 patients taking clozapine whose social phobia symptoms became clinically detectable when their psychosis remitted during clozapine treatment. Further studies are needed to systematically test behavioral and pharmacological treatments.

TRAUMA AND POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER Prevalence and Outcome Lifetime trauma is very common, reported by 85%–98% of patients with schizophrenia (Gearon et al. 2003; Goodman et al. 1995, 2001; Hutchings and Dutton 1993; Jacobson and Richardson 1987; Mueser et al. 1998). Approximately half (34%–65%) of patients with schizophrenia report childhood

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ESSENTIALS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA physical or sexual abuse (Darves-Bornoz et al. 1995; Goodman et al. 2001; Greenfield et al. 1994; Ross et al. 1994). Studies of patients with schizophrenia report high rates of PTSD, ranging between 14% and 43% (Craine et al. 1988; Fenton 2001; Frame and Morrison 2001; Kendler et al. 1996; Mueser et al. 1998, 2004; Neria et al. 2002). Among patients with schizophrenia with a history of trauma, 27%– 66% develop PTSD (Craine et al. 1988; Gearon et al. 2003; Mueser et al. 1998; Neria et al. 2002). More trauma experiences and childhood sexual abuse are significant predictors of the development of PTSD in this group (Gearon et al. 2003; Mueser et al. 1998; Neria et al. 2002). Like people in the general population, patients with schizophrenia who have experienced trauma report more symptoms of anxiety, depression, suicidality, and dissociation than do those who have not experienced trauma (Goodman and Dutton 1996; Goodman et al. 1997; Priebe et al. 1998; Read and Argyle 1999; Schwartz and Cohen 2001). A history of trauma and PTSD is associated with worse role function (Lysaker et al. 2001), substance abuse (Goodman et al. 2001; Neria et al. 2002), homelessness (Goodman et al. 2001), lower quality of life, and less employment (Priebe et al. 1998).

Detection and Management Because trauma and PTSD are so common in patients with schizophrenia and are associated with a variety of negative outcomes, clinicians should assess for the presence of PTSD symptoms and address the symptoms and functional correlates of trauma and PTSD. People who have been traumatized benefit from additional services, including education about trauma and its sequelae, training and support to enhance their current safety, and assistance to secure safe housing (Harris 2003). Clinicians should take care to be respectful and to assume a supportive stance when discussing trauma with patients. CBT is helpful for people with primary PTSD in the general population (Harvey et al. 2003) and is being adapted for patients with schizophrenia (Rosenberg et al. 2001b) but has not yet been systematically studied. One study found CBT to be effective for patients with severe mental illness (15% schizophrenia) and PTSD (Mueser et al. 2008). Although antidepressants reduce PTSD symptoms (Albucher and Liberzon 2002), these drugs have not been studied in patients with schizophrenia and co-occurring PTSD. Further research is necessary to clarify how trauma and PTSD affect the course and treatment of schizophrenia and to assess interventions to reduce PTSD symptoms and prevent or reduce the negative sequelae of trauma in patients with schizophrenia.

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OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE SYMPTOMS AND OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER Prevalence and Outcome Most contemporary studies report obsessive-compulsive symptoms in 10%– 26% of patients with schizophrenia (Berman et al. 1995a; Cassano et al. 1998; Craig et al. 2002; Fabisch et al. 2001; Nechmad et al. 2003), and full OCD with obsessions and compulsions not related to delusions has been documented in 4%–24% of inpatients and outpatients with schizophrenia (Cosoff and Hafner 1998; Craig et al. 2002; Eisen et al. 1997; Ohta et al. 2003; Pallanti et al. 2004; Poyurovsky et al. 2001). Although obsessions and compulsions in patients with schizophrenia are similar to those in patients without psychosis (e.g., contamination/washing, harm/checking) (Eisen et al. 1997; Fenton and McGlashan 1986; Ohta et al. 2003; Poyurovsky et al. 2001), distinguishing between delusions, preoccupations, and obsessions can be difficult in patients with thought disorders (Eisen et al. 1997). Classically, delusions are described as fixed, false beliefs that are ego-syntonic and actively embraced by the patient, whereas obsessions are ego-dystonic and recognized as pathological intrusions (Hwang and Opler 2000). However, this distinction does not always hold true in clinical interviews of patients with primary OCD or in patients with psychosis. About 15% of the patients with primary OCD have poor insight (Attiullah et al. 2000; Marazziti et al. 2002); moreover, there appears to be a continuum of insight in patients with schizophrenia, and for some patients, obsessions and delusions may be overlapping (Bermanzohn et al. 1997). Patients with obsessive-compulsive symptoms tend to be more socially isolated, to be less treatment responsive, and to have longer hospitalizations (Berman et al. 1995a; Fenton and McGlashan 1986; Hwang et al. 2000). Moreover, research suggests an association between obsessive-compulsive symptoms and poorer neurocognitive function in schizophrenia (Berman et al. 1998; Hwang and Opler 2000; Lysaker et al. 2000; Schmidtke et al. 1998). Three studies found that patients with schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive symptoms have higher levels of psychotic symptoms (Hwang et al. 2000; Lysaker et al. 2000; Nechmad et al. 2003), whereas five studies found no difference (Berman et al. 1998; Craig et al. 2002; Ohta et al. 2003; Poyurovsky et al. 1999a, 2001). Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in persons with schizophrenia may have heterogeneous causes. Some authors have suggested that a supersensitivity of serotonin receptors may occur during antipsychotic treatment, causing transient obsessive-compulsive symptoms (Baker et al. 1992; Kopala and Honer 1994; Morrison et al. 1998; Poyurovsky et al. 1996, 1998), although this was not evident in a controlled trial (Baker et al. 1996). Furthermore, several

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Detection and Management The types of obsessions and compulsions experienced by patients with schizophrenia are similar to those found in classic OCD. Most contemporary studies have reliably used the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Goodman et al. 1989) to detect obsessive-compulsive symptoms in these patients. Antipsychotic medications used alone appear to be ineffective in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive symptoms in patients with schizophrenia (Poyurovsky et al. 2000). Although one report suggested that risperidone may enhance treatment response (McDougle et al. 2000), other reports suggested that clozapine may occasionally increase obsessive-compulsive symptoms (Patel et al. 1997; Strous et al. 1999). However, serotonin reuptake inhibitors used in combination with antipsychotics have been reported to reduce obsessive-compulsive symptoms in patients with schizophrenia (Berman et al. 1995b; Patel et al. 1997; Poyurovsky et al. 2003; Strous et al. 1999). A review (Chang and Berman 1999) of trials using clomipramine, imipramine, or fluoxetine reported that 67% of the patients showed improvement in obsessive-compulsive symptoms with no worsening of psychosis, whereas 19% showed worsening of psychosis. Similar results were found in a 12-week case series of 10 patients who received fluvoxamine augmentation (Poyurovsky et al. 1999b). CBT has not been systematically studied in patients with schizophrenia and co-occurring obsessive-compulsive symptoms. The potential value of CBT may be influenced by the level of cognitive function and insight (Goff 1999).

CONCLUSION Co-occurring disorders, such as substance abuse, major depression, and anxiety disorders, are common in patients with schizophrenia and are associated with a more difficult course of illness. These co-occurring disorders can be reliably identified, if clinicians look for them. Treatment protocols for some co-occurring disorders have been established, while for others further study will be required to define best practices guidelines. As a general rule, however, identification of these co-occurring disorders and integration of specific pharmacological and psychosocial interventions for them within schizophrenia treatment programs will be essential if clinical outcomes for patients with schizophrenia are to be improved.

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Several studies have documented markedly increased mortality rates among persons with schizophrenia. The life expectancy of persons with schizophrenia is, on average, reduced by 9–10 years (Tsuang et al. 1980). Although suicide is responsible for a significant share of this increased mortality, most of the extra mortality is from natural causes (Brown et al. 2010). Such comorbidities influence the care of patients with schizophrenia by complicating treatment and affecting prognosis. In improving the health status and quality of life of persons with schizophrenia, it is imperative to enhance our understanding and management of comorbidity. In this chapter, we review the findings regarding the presence of medical conditions among patients with schizophrenia and discuss how these issues affect the treatment of schizophrenia.

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MEDICAL ILLNESSES IN SCHIZOPHRENIA Persons with schizophrenia are at higher risk for many medical illnesses, particularly diabetes, cardiovascular disease, infectious diseases (especially sexually transmitted diseases), liver disease, and respiratory conditions such as emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, and chronic bronchitis (Carney et al. 2006; Dixon et al. 1999; Sokal et al. 2004). Contributors to this increased risk include higher rates of obesity (Allison et al. 1999), cigarette smoking (Dalack et al. 1998), and medication side effects (Jeste et al. 1996). Even in patients who do not yet have cardiovascular disease or diabetes, a high proportion will have abnormal lipid profiles (triglycerides and cholesterol), elevated fasting glucose levels, and truncal obesity consistent with a “metabolic syndrome” and indicating an elevated risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes (Ryan and Thakore 2002). Research indicates that patients with schizophrenia are less likely to receive preventive medical care and make fewer visits for chronic medical conditions (Folsom et al. 2002). One possible reason is that the social withdrawal associated with schizophrenia prevents self-care and treatment-seeking behavior for physical complaints (Goldman 1999). Also, patients with schizophrenia perceive more barriers to treatment of medical conditions (Dickerson et al. 2003), which may lead to lack of preventive services that could have affected the prevalence of certain conditions.

DIABETES MELLITUS AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE While type 2 diabetes is a highly prevalent chronic medical condition diagnosed in approximately 4.5% of the U.S. population (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2005), those with schizophrenia are more often affected, with an estimated prevalence of 16%–25% (Dixon et al. 2000; Mukherjee et al. 1996; Newcomer et al. 2002; Subramaniam et al. 2003). Factors that contribute to diabetes risk include use of antipsychotic medications that cause metabolic abnormalities associated with diabetes risk (e.g., elevated lipids, glucose, and truncal obesity) (Koro et al. 2002; Sernyak et al. 2002). Other risk factors for diabetes in persons with schizophrenia include sedentary lifestyle, obesity, poor diet, and high smoking rates. Furthermore, drug-naive patients have been shown to have more highly impaired fasting glucose tolerance, to be more insulin resistant, and to have higher levels of plasma glucose, insulin, and cortisol than do healthy comparison subjects (Fernandez-Egea et al. 2009; Ryan et al. 2003), suggesting that schizophrenia itself may be associated with a biological vulnerability to diabetes through some as yet unknown mechanism. Diabetes also may have additional consequences for persons with schizophrenia, as

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shown in its role as a risk factor for tardive dyskinesia (Mukherjee et al. 1989; Woerner et al. 1993).

Acute Complications Severe hyperglycemia is associated with symptoms such as polyuria, polydipsia, weight loss, and blurred vision. The most important acute complication of diabetes mellitus is diabetic ketoacidosis, defined as low serum pH (≤7.35), low serum bicarbonate (≤15), and an anion gap, concomitant with ketonemia (Henderson and Ettinger 2003). Diabetic ketoacidosis is a life-threatening situation and requires immediate action on the part of the clinician.

Chronic Complications Long-term complications of diabetes include retinopathy (with potential loss of vision), nephropathy (leading to renal failure), peripheral neuropathy (increased risk of foot ulcers, amputation, and Charcot’s joints), autonomic neuropathy (cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and genitourinary dysfunction), and greatly increased risk of atheroma affecting large vessels (increased risk of macrovascular complications of stroke, myocardial infarction, or peripheral vascular disease).

Metabolic Syndrome Problems with glucose metabolism are one component of the metabolic syndrome, which encompasses three or more of the following (National Institutes of Health 2001): 1. Abdominal obesity: waist circumference >102 cm in men and >88 cm in women 2. Elevated serum triglycerides: ≥150 mg/dL 3. Low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol: